Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 4
Legends are the indistinct memories of nations, and are of real value when there is any opportunity for comparison.
Who acts: Legends, opportunity · What happens: be · To what, where: indistinct memories
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Legends, opportunity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 memories | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 memories | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 memories | det |
| 4 | indistinct | indistinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 memories | amod |
| 5 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nations | case |
| 7 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 memories | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 value | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 value | cc |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 value | cop |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 value | case |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 value | amod |
| 13 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 memories | parataxis |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 is | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 value | advcl |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 opportunity | det |
| 18 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 comparison | case |
| 20 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opportunity | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 memories | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Legends | the indistinct memories | of nations | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | of real value | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | present | any opportunity for comparison | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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