Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 11
In November, 1736, he was born in North Kohala, Hawaii.
What happens: bear · To what, where: king, North Kohala
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 November | case |
| 2 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 born | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 1736 | punct |
| 4 | 1736 | 1736 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 November | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 November | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Kohala | case |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Kohala | compound |
| 11 | Kohala | Kohala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 born | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hawaii | punct |
| 13 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Kohala | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | king | North Kohala | november | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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