Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 182
This was called the Pakee or the play with the darts or javelins.
What happens: call · To what, where: This · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Pakee | det |
| 5 | Pakee | Pakee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 play | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 play | det |
| 8 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Pakee | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 darts | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 darts | det |
| 11 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 play | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 javelins | cc |
| 13 | javelins | javelin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 darts | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | This | the Pakee or the play with the darts or javelins xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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