Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 19
The name of the Hawaiian Islands is taken from this mythological name.
What happens: take, name · To what, where: name, mythological name, Hawaiian Islands
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: 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Islands | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Islands | det |
| 5 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Islands | compound |
| 6 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 name | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 name | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 name | det |
| 11 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 name | amod |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | the name of the Hawaiian Islands | this mythological name | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from name=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | name | the Hawaiian Islands | nom name «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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