Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 47
This is the original Hawa-iki from which Polynesia was first settled, expeditions probably passing out to the far distant island groups.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, settle, pass out · To what, where: original Hawa iki, Polynesia, far distant island groups
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), 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 | 7 iki | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 iki | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 iki | det |
| 4 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 iki | amod |
| 5 | Hawa | Hawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 iki | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hawa | punct |
| 7 | iki | iki | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 settled | obl |
| 10 | Polynesia | Polynesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 settled | aux:pass |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 settled | advmod |
| 13 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 iki | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 expeditions | punct |
| 15 | expeditions | expedition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 settled | conj |
| 16 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 17 passing | advmod |
| 17 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 settled | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 passing | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 groups | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 groups | det |
| 21 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 groups | amod |
| 22 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 groups | amod |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 groups | compound |
| 24 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 passing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 iki | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the original Hawa iki | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | settle | past · passive | Polynesia | the original Hawa iki | expeditions conj; first property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | |||
| 3 | pass out | gerund | the far distant island groups | probably property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to group=Recipient |
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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