Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 218
The Hawaiian legends tell us Pili, a very high chief of Samoa, was persuaded by messengers from Paao to move to the islands of the north.
Who acts: Hawaiian legends, messengers · What happens: tell, persuade, move · To what, where: us, Pili, islands · 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 legends, messengers), 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 legends | det |
| 2 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 legends | amod |
| 3 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | Pili | Pili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 persuaded | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chief | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 high | advmod |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chief | amod |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Pili | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Samoa | case |
| 13 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 chief | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pili | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 16 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 messengers | case |
| 18 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 persuaded | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Paao | case |
| 20 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 messengers | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 move | mark |
| 22 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 persuaded | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 islands | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 islands | det |
| 25 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 move | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 north | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 north | det |
| 28 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 islands | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the Hawaiian legends | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | persuade | past · passive | messengers from Paao | Pili | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | move | to-infinitive | messengers from Paao not said here | the islands of the north | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to island=Trajectory |
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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