Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 57

Another very ancient stone wall around a large fish pond is referred to the Menehunes, who did not finish their work in one night, therefore the wall has always been incomplete.

Who acts: Menehunes, wall · What happens: refer, not finish, be, work · To what, where: ancient stone wall, Menehunes, work

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 (Menehunes, wall), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 wall	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 ancient	advmod
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wall	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wall	compound
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 referred	nsubj:pass
6	around	around	ADP	_	10 pond	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pond	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pond	amod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pond	compound
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wall	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 referred	aux:pass
12	referred	refer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Menehunes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Menehunes	det
15	Menehunes	Menehune	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 referred	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 finish	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 finish	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 finish	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 finish	advmod
20	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Menehunes	acl:relcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 work	nmod:poss
22	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 finish	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 night	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 night	nummod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 finish	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 incomplete	punct
27	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	33 incomplete	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wall	det
29	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 incomplete	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 incomplete	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 incomplete	advmod
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 incomplete	cop
33	incomplete	incomplete	ADV	_	12 referred	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 referred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	refer	present · passive		another ancient stone wall around a large fish pond	the Menehunes			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to menehune=Recipient
2	not finish	past · do-support	the Menehunes	Menehunes's work		night		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality
3	is	present · perfect	the wall				always, incomplete, therefore property	tree rules
4	work		Menehunes = menehune					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 57