Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 17
Not far from the year 1100 A.D., two priest brothers were living on Upolu, one of the Samoan Islands.
Who acts: two priest brothers · What happens: live · To what, where: Upolu
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 (two priest 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 living | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 year | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 far | obl |
| 6 | 1100 | 1100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 year | flat |
| 7 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 1100 | flat |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 far | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 far | punct |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 brothers | nummod |
| 11 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brothers | compound |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 living | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 living | aux |
| 14 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Upolu | case |
| 16 | Upolu | Upolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 living | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 living | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Islands | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Islands | det |
| 21 | Samoan | Samoan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Islands | compound |
| 22 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · progressive | two priest brothers | Upolu | one of the Samoan Islands parataxis; far property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on upolu=Location |
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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