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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 57

The idea that Hawa-iki was the home of the ghosts could very easily be derived from the other world beyond the shining wall of the sky into which any one sailing out of sight of land might be forever lost.

Who acts: Hawa iki, one · What happens: be, derive, shine, sail, lose, sight · To what, where: home, idea, other world, sight, one, shining wall

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, one), 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

detnsubj:passmarkcompoundpunctnsubjcopdetaclcasedetnmodauxadvmodadvmodaux:passcasedetamodoblcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodcaseobldetnsubj:passaclcasecaseoblcasenmodauxaux:passadvmodacl:relclpunctrootTheDETideaNOUNthatSCONJHawaPROPN-PUNCTikiNOUNwasAUXtheDEThomeNOUNofADPtheDETghostsNOUNcouldAUXveryADVeasilyADVbeAUXderivedVERBfromADPtheDETotherADJworldNOUNbeyondADPtheDETshiningVERBwallNOUNofADPtheDETskyNOUNintoADPwhichPRONanyDEToneNOUNsailingVERBoutADPofADPsightNOUNofADPlandNOUNmightAUXbeAUXforeverADVlostVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 ideadet
2ideaideaNOUNNumber=Sing17 derivednsubj:pass
3thatthatSCONJ_9 homemark
4HawaHawaPROPNNumber=Sing6 ikicompound
5--PUNCT_4 Hawapunct
6ikiikiNOUNNumber=Sing9 homensubj
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 homecop
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 homedet
9homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing2 ideaacl
10ofofADP_12 ghostscase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 ghostsdet
12ghostsghostNOUNNumber=Plur9 homenmod
13couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 derivedaux
14veryveryADV_15 easilyadvmod
15easilyeasilyADV_17 derivedadvmod
16bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf17 derivedaux:pass
17derivedderiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
18fromfromADP_21 worldcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 worlddet
20otherotherADJDegree=Pos21 worldamod
21worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing17 derivedobl
22beyondbeyondADP_25 wallcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 walldet
24shiningshineVERBVerbForm=Ger25 wallamod
25wallwallNOUNNumber=Sing17 derivedobl
26ofofADP_28 skycase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 skydet
28skyskyNOUNNumber=Sing25 wallnmod
29intointoADP_30 whichcase
30whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel42 lostobl
31anyanyDETPronType=Ind32 onedet
32oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing42 lostnsubj:pass
33sailingsailVERBVerbForm=Ger32 oneacl
34outoutADP_36 sightcase
35ofofADP_36 sightcase
36sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing33 sailingobl
37ofofADP_38 landcase
38landlandNOUNNumber=Sing36 sightnmod
39mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin42 lostaux
40bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf42 lostaux:pass
41foreverforeverADV_42 lostadvmod
42lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 wallacl:relcl
43..PUNCT_17 derivedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastHawa ikithe homeof the ghoststree rules
2derivecould · passivethe ideathe other worldbeyond the shining wall of the sky; easily propertyvn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from world=Material
3shinegerundvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4sailgerundany one not said heresight of landvn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sight=Trajectory
5losemight · passiveany onethe shining wall of the skyforever propertyvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6sightlandnom sight «cognition 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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