Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 53
The fairies were known in the Hawaiian legends as the Menehunes.
What happens: know · To what, where: fairies, Hawaiian legends
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairies | det |
| 2 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 legends | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legends | det |
| 7 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legends | amod |
| 8 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 known | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 Menehunes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Menehunes | det |
| 11 | Menehunes | Menehune | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 legends | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | the fairies | the Hawaiian legends as the Menehunes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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