Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 224
Here Paao built the Mookini temple, in a place to which he gave the name it still bears—Lae Upolu, the Cape of Upolu.
Who acts: Paao, name · What happens: build, give, bear · To what, where: Mookini temple, place, name
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 (Paao, name), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 built | advmod |
| 2 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 temple | det |
| 5 | Mookini | Mookini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 temple | compound |
| 6 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 place | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gave | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 name | det |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bears | nsubj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 bears | advmod |
| 19 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obl |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Lae | punct |
| 21 | Lae | Lae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bears | appos |
| 22 | Upolu | Upolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lae | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Cape | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Cape | det |
| 25 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lae | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Upolu | case |
| 27 | Upolu | Upolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Cape | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Paao | the Mookini temple | a place; here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Product | |||
| 2 | give | past | Paao | the name | a place | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to which=Recipient | |||
| 3 | bear | name | still | Lae and the Cape of Upolu appos | tree rules |
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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