Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 95
“I am the wrestler From the groves of Papeete, By the sea waters.
Who acts: two brothers · What happens: be · To what, where: wrestler, groves
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 (two brothers), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrestler | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wrestler | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrestler | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wrestler | det |
| 5 | wrestler | wrestler | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | From | from | ADP | _ | 8 groves | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 groves | det |
| 8 | groves | grove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrestler | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Papeete | case |
| 10 | Papeete | Papeete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 groves | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waters | punct |
| 12 | By | by | ADP | _ | 15 waters | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waters | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waters | compound |
| 15 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrestler | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrestler | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the two brothers = brother | the wrestler and the sea waters | the groves of Papeete | the sea waters conj | 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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