Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 51
Max Müller calls attention to the use of the word Av-iki by both Brahmins and Buddhists as the name of their “hades.”
Who acts: Max · What happens: call, use, name · To what, where: attention, use, word, hades · 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 (Max), 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 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | nsubj |
| 2 | Müller | Müller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Max | flat |
| 3 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 use | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 use | det |
| 7 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 word | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | nmod |
| 11 | Av | Av | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 word | appos |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Av | punct |
| 13 | iki | iki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | appos |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Brahmins | case |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 Brahmins | det |
| 16 | Brahmins | brahmin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 calls | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Buddhists | cc |
| 18 | Buddhists | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Brahmins | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hades | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hades | nmod:poss |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 hades | punct |
| 25 | hades | hade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 name | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Max | attention | the use of the word | by both Brahmins and Buddhists; as the name of names's hades | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Topic to use=Recipient | ||
| 2 | use | the word | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | name | names's hades | 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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