Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 65
Hawaii-loa—“the Great Hawaii”—may well be considered both a founder of the Polynesian race and the first settler of the Hawaiian Islands.
Who acts: Hawaii loa · What happens: consider · To what, where: founder, Hawaii loa
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 (Hawaii loa), 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 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 loa | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 loa | punct |
| 3 | loa | loa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hawaii | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hawaii | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hawaii | det |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Hawaii | amod |
| 8 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 loa | appos |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hawaii | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 considered | punct |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 considered | aux |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 considered | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 considered | aux:pass |
| 14 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 loa | acl |
| 15 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 17 founder | cc:preconj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 founder | det |
| 17 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 considered | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 race | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 race | det |
| 20 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 race | amod |
| 21 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 founder | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 settler | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 settler | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 settler | amod |
| 25 | settler | settler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 founder | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Islands | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Islands | det |
| 28 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Islands | compound |
| 29 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 settler | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loa | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | may · passive | Hawaii loa not said here | a founder of the Polynesian race and the first settler of the Hawaiian Islands | well property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» |
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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