Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 22
In far eastern Tahiti is a place on Raiatea, the island now known as Opoa.
What happens: be, know · To what, where: place, eastern Tahiti, island
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Tahiti | case |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 eastern | advmod |
| 3 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Tahiti | amod |
| 4 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 place | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Raiatea | case |
| 9 | Raiatea | Raiatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 place | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 island | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | appos |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 known | advmod |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 island | acl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Opoa | case |
| 16 | Opoa | Opoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 known | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a place | eastern Tahiti | on Raiatea; the island appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | participle | the island not said here | now | as Opoa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as opoa=Attribute |
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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