Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 52
Hawa-iki was the name of the place from which the Polynesians came and about which they talked in their most ancient stories.
Who acts: Hawa iki, Polynesians · What happens: be, come, talk · To what, where: name, place, most ancient stories
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 (Hawa iki, Polynesians), 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 | Hawa | Hawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 iki | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hawa | punct |
| 3 | iki | iki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Polynesians | det |
| 13 | Polynesians | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 talked | cc |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 talked | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 talked | nsubj |
| 19 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 stories | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 stories | nmod:poss |
| 22 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 stories | amod |
| 23 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stories | amod |
| 24 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 talked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hawa iki | the name | of the place | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | the Polynesians | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | talk | past | Polynesians = polynesian | Polynesians's most ancient stories | which obl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about which=Topic |
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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