Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 41
The ancient days had little of the modern care for children.
Who acts: ancient days · What happens: have · To what, where: little
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 (ancient days), 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 days | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 care | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 care | det |
| 8 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 care | amod |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 little | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 care | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the ancient days | little of the modern care for children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
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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