Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 58
The path into this other world—this Hawa-iki of the ancestors—was universally toward the west—the golden path of the setting sun.
Who acts: path · What happens: be
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 (path), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 path | det |
| 2 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 west | nsubj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 world | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 world | amod |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 path | nmod |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 iki | punct |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 iki | det |
| 9 | Hawa | Hawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 iki | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Hawa | punct |
| 11 | iki | iki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 path | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ancestors | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ancestors | det |
| 14 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 iki | nmod |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 path | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 west | cop |
| 17 | universally | universally | ADV | _ | 20 west | advmod |
| 18 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 20 west | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 west | det |
| 20 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 path | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 path | det |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 path | amod |
| 24 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 west | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 sun. | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sun. | det |
| 27 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sun. | compound |
| 28 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 path | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the path into this other world | toward the west and the golden path of the setting sun.; the golden path of the setting sun. conj; universally property | tree rules |
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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