Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 23
Its ancient and sacred name was Hawaii.
Who acts: ancient name, Maoris · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Hawaii
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 (ancient name, Maoris), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sacred | cc |
| 4 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ancient | conj |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Hawaii | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Hawaii | cop |
| 7 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hawaii | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Maoris's ancient name | Hawaii | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | Maoris | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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