Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 15
The story of Pili depends upon another story which must be told first.
Who acts: story · What happens: depend, tell · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (story), 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 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Pili | case |
| 4 | Pili | pili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 5 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 told | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | aux:pass |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 story | acl:relcl |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 told | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | the story of Pili | upon another story | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | must · passive | another story | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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