Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 33
Tahiti at last meant any distant or foreign group of islands, although individual names of islands are used in the chants—such as Bolabola and Upolu.
Who acts: Tahiti · What happens: mean, use, name · To what, where: distant group, individual names, chants, 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: who acts (Tahiti), 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 | Tahiti | tahiti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meant | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tahiti | nmod |
| 4 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 group | det |
| 6 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 group | amod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 foreign | cc |
| 8 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 distant | conj |
| 9 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meant | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 islands | case |
| 11 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 group | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 used | punct |
| 13 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 used | mark |
| 14 | individual | individual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 names | amod |
| 15 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 used | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 islands | case |
| 17 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 names | nmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 used | aux:pass |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 meant | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 chants | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chants | det |
| 22 | chants | chant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 used | obl |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bolabola | punct |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 26 Bolabola | case |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 such | fixed |
| 26 | Bolabola | Bolabola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 chants | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Upolu | cc |
| 28 | Upolu | Upolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Bolabola | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | Tahiti at last | any distant group of islands | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | individual names of islands | the chants such Bolabola and Upolu | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | 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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