Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 29
Pigs and dogs were brought from the West.”
What happens: bring · To what, where: Pigs, West
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 | Pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dogs | cc |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pigs | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 West | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 West | det |
| 8 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | Pigs and dogs | the West | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from west=Initial_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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