Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 21
So also the small island Hawaiki in Lake Rotorua of New Zealand, where the New Zealand legends say the ancestors of the Maoris placed the relics which they brought with them from their ancestral Hawaiki when they settled in New Zealand.
Who acts: Zealand legends, ancestors · What happens: say, place, bring, settle · To what, where: relics, ancestral Hawaiki, New Zealand, small island · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Zealand legends, ancestors), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 island | advmod |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 island | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 island | amod |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Hawaiki | Hawaiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 island | appos |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Rotorua | case |
| 8 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rotorua | compound |
| 9 | Rotorua | Rotorua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 island | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Zealand | case |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Zealand | flat |
| 12 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rotorua | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 say | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 say | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 legends | det |
| 16 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Zealand | flat |
| 17 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 legends | compound |
| 18 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 say | nsubj |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 island | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ancestors | det |
| 21 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 placed | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Maoris | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Maoris | det |
| 24 | Maoris | Maoris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ancestors | nmod |
| 25 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 relics | det |
| 27 | relics | relic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 placed | obj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 brought | obj |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | nsubj |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 relics | acl:relcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | obl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 Hawaiki | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 Hawaiki | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ancestral | ancestral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Hawaiki | amod |
| 36 | Hawaiki | Hawaiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 brought | obl |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 settled | advmod |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 settled | nsubj |
| 39 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 brought | advcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 Zealand | case |
| 41 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Zealand | flat |
| 42 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 settled | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Zealand legends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | place | past | the ancestors of the Maoris | the relics | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent relic=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | ancestors = ancestor | the relics | islands's ancestral Hawaiki | with islands = island | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent which=Theme from hawaiki=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | settle | past | ancestors = ancestor | New Zealand | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zealand=Location |
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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