Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 13
A quarter of a century is accepted as the average life of a generation.
What happens: accept · To what, where: quarter
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 quarter | det |
| 2 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 century | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 century | det |
| 5 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quarter | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 accepted | aux:pass |
| 7 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 life | det |
| 10 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 life | amod |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accepted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 generation | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 generation | det |
| 14 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 life | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | present · passive | a quarter of a century | as the average life of a generation | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as life=Attribute |
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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