Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 18
Hawaii in some form of the word is the most universally used name among all the Polynesians as the place for their ancestral home.
Who acts: Hawaii · What happens: use, be, form · To what, where: used name, word
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 (Hawaii), 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 | 13 name | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 form | case |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 form | det |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hawaii | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 word | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 form | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 name | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 universally | advmod |
| 11 | universally | universally | ADV | _ | 12 used | advmod |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 name | amod |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 Polynesians | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 Polynesians | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Polynesians | det |
| 17 | Polynesians | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 name | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Polynesians | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 home | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ancestral | ancestral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 home | amod |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | universally property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Hawaii in some form of the word | the used name | among all Polynesians as the place for places's ancestral home | tree rules | |||
| 3 | form | the word | nom form «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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