Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 56

A very ancient stone water-wall along the side of one of the swift-flowing Hawaiian rivers has no tradition or history save that the Menehune people built it in one night.

Who acts: ancient stone water wall, tradition, Menehune people · What happens: flow, have, save, build · To what, where: wall

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 (ancient stone water wall, tradition, Menehune people), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wall	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 ancient	advmod
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wall	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wall	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wall	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	nsubj
8	along	along	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wall	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 side	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	19 rivers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rivers	det
15	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flowing	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 swift	punct
17	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 rivers	amod
18	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rivers	amod
19	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 tradition	det
22	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 save	nsubj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 history	cc
24	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tradition	conj
25	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 has	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 built	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
28	Menehune	Menehune	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 people	compound
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 built	nsubj
30	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 save	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 built	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 night	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 night	nummod
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 built	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	flow	gerund				swift compound	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	a ancient stone water wall along the side of one of the flowing Hawaiian rivers				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	save	present	no tradition or history				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	build	past	the Menehune people	wall	night		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 56