Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 8
The other had left his house in the hills from which the beautiful river of the Vai-ta-piha valley takes its source.
Who acts: other, beautiful river · What happens: leave, take · To what, where: house, hills, source
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: who acts (other, beautiful river), 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 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hills | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 takes | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 river | amod |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 takes | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 valley | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 valley | det |
| 17 | Vai | Vai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 valley | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Vai | punct |
| 19 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 valley | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ta | punct |
| 21 | piha | piha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 valley | compound |
| 22 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 river | nmod |
| 23 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hills | conj |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 source | nmod:poss |
| 25 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 takes | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | the other | La's house | the hills | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in hill=Location | |||
| 2 | take | present | the beautiful river of the ta piha valley Vai | river's source | the hills | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent source=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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