Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 16
In fact the Hawaiian traditions tell a great deal more about Paao, the founder of the high-priest family of Hawaii, than about Pili, the ancestor of kings.
Who acts: Hawaiian traditions · What happens: tell · To what, where: great deal, fact · 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 (Hawaiian traditions), 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 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 traditions | det |
| 4 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 traditions | amod |
| 5 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deal | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deal | amod |
| 9 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obj |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 deal | amod |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 Paao | case |
| 12 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 more | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 founder | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 founder | det |
| 15 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deal | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 family | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 family | det |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 priest | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 high | punct |
| 20 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 family | compound |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 founder | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Hawaii | case |
| 23 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 family | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Pili | punct |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 Pili | case |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 Pili | case |
| 27 | Pili | Pili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ancestor | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ancestor | det |
| 30 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Pili | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 kings | case |
| 32 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 ancestor | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the Hawaiian traditions | a great deal and the founder of the priest family of Hawaii | fact | than Pili | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deal=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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