Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 1

The Hawaiians, like the native residents of many other groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean, have not taken kindly to the European names tacked upon their doorposts by the sailors who discovered them.

Who acts: sailors · What happens: not take, tack, discover · To what, where: Hawaiians, European names, doorposts

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors), 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 Hawaiians	det
2	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 taken	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 residents	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 residents	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 residents	det
6	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 residents	amod
7	residents	resident	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Hawaiians	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 groups	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 groups	amod
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 groups	amod
11	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 residents	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 islands	case
13	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 groups	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 Ocean	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Ocean	det
16	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Ocean	compound
17	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 islands	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hawaiians	punct
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 taken	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 taken	advmod
21	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	21 taken	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 names	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 names	det
25	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 names	amod
26	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 taken	obl
27	tacked	tack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 names	acl
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 doorposts	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 doorposts	nmod:poss
30	doorposts	doorpost	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tacked	obl
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 sailors	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sailors	det
33	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tacked	obl:agent
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 discovered	nsubj
35	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sailors	acl:relcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 discovered	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not take	present · perfect · passive		the Hawaiians	the European names	kindly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to name=Destination
2	tack	participle		the European names not said here	Hawaiians's doorposts	the sailors obl:agent	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon doorpost=Trajectory
3	discover	past	the sailors	Hawaiians = hawaiian			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 1

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Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 1