Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 6
The sagas of the Vikings are rivalled in some measure by the meles of the Hawaiians.
Who acts: meles · What happens: rivall · To what, where: sagas, measure
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 (meles), 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 sagas | det |
| 2 | sagas | saga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rivalled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Vikings | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Vikings | det |
| 5 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 sagas | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rivalled | aux:pass |
| 7 | rivalled | rivall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 measure | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 measure | det |
| 10 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rivalled | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 meles | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meles | det |
| 13 | meles | mele | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rivalled | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Hawaiians | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Hawaiians | det |
| 16 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 meles | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rivalled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rivall | present · passive | the meles of the Hawaiians | the sagas of the Vikings | some measure | tree rules |
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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