Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 3
Hawaiians never reckoned history by dates, but by genealogies—as did the Hebrews.
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: not reckon, do · To what, where: history, Hebrews
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 (Hawaiians), 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 | Hawaiians | hawaiian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reckoned | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 reckoned | advmod |
| 3 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckoned | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 dates | case |
| 6 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reckoned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 genealogies | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 genealogies | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 genealogies | case |
| 10 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dates | conj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reckoned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hebrews | det |
| 15 | Hebrews | Hebrew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 did | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reckon | participle | Hawaiians | history | by dates but genealogies | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent history=Attribute | |||
| 2 | do | past | Hawaiians not said here | the Hebrews | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hebrew=Eventuality |
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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