Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 208
The native custodians of this cave guard its secrets jealously.
To what, where: secrets
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 custodians | det |
| 2 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 custodians | amod |
| 3 | custodians | custodian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 secrets | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 guard | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 guard | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guard | compound |
| 7 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 custodians | nmod |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 secrets | nmod:poss |
| 9 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | jealously | jealously | ADV | _ | 9 secrets | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 secrets | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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