Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 36
This, as Fornander says, was “because the ancestors of the islanders came from the west originally.”
Who acts: This, ancestors · What happens: say, be · To what, where: west · 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 says | mark |
| 4 | Fornander | Fornander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | cop |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ancestors | det |
| 11 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 islanders | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 islanders | det |
| 14 | islanders | islander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ancestors | nmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 west | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 west | det |
| 18 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | This | Fornander nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the ancestors of the islanders | the west | come, originally property | tree rules |
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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