Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 54
Sometimes they were credited with powers like the gnomes of old England.
What happens: credit · To what, where: fairies
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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 credited | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 credited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 credited | aux:pass |
| 4 | credited | credit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 powers | case |
| 6 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 credited | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 gnomes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gnomes | det |
| 9 | gnomes | gnome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 powers | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 England | case |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 England | amod |
| 12 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gnomes | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 credited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | credit | past · passive | fairies = fairy | with powers like the gnomes of old England; sometimes property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with power=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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