Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 183
A second test was made along the same beaten track in the game called Ulu-maika.
What happens: make, beat, call · To what, where: second test, game · 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 test | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 test | amod |
| 3 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 track | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 track | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 track | amod |
| 9 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 track | amod |
| 10 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 game | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 game | det |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 track | nmod |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 game | acl |
| 15 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 maika | punct |
| 17 | maika | maika | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 Ulu | dep |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | a second test | along the same beaten track in the game | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | the game not said here | Ulu xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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