Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 10
Fornander gives the following list of island groups with the various methods of using the word Hawaii:
Who acts: Fornander, various methods · What happens: give, follow, use, list · To what, where: following list, word, island groups
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 (Fornander, various methods), 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 | Fornander | Fornander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 list | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 list | amod |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 groups | case |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 groups | compound |
| 8 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 list | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 methods | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 methods | det |
| 11 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 methods | amod |
| 12 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 groups | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 using | mark |
| 14 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 methods | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 word | det |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 using | obj |
| 17 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 word | appos |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Fornander | the following list of island groups with the various methods | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | use | gerund | the various methods not said here | the word | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 4 | list | island groups with the various methods | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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