Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 53

This other world became mysterious as the ages passed by until at last Hawa-iki meant the place to which the spirits of the dead went, as well as the home from which their ancestors came.

Who acts: other world, ages, spirits, ancestors · What happens: become, pass, mean, go, come · To what, where: ages, place, home

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 (other world, ages, spirits, 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	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 world	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 world	amod
3	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	xcomp
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 meant	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ages	det
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 meant	nsubj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ages	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	16 iki	case
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 iki	mark
12	at	at	ADP	_	16 iki	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 iki	amod
14	Hawa	Hawa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 iki	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Hawa	punct
16	iki	iki	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passed	obl
17	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meant	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 went	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spirits	det
23	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 went	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 dead	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dead	det
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spirits	nmod
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 place	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 home	punct
29	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	33 home	cc
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 as	fixed
31	as	as	ADP	_	29 as	fixed
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 home	det
33	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meant	obl
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 came	obl
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 ancestors	nmod:poss
37	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 home	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	this other world			mysterious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	pass	participle		the ages not said here		by last Hawa iki	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by iki=Location
3	mean	past	the ages	the place		the home obl	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
4	go	past	the spirits of the dead		the place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial_Location
5	come	past	places's ancestors		the home		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 53

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 53