Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 47
The Hawaiian traditions say that after this act he determined to leave Upolu.
Who acts: Hawaiian traditions, Paao · What happens: say, determine, leave · To what, where: Upolu · 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 traditions, Paao), 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 traditions | det |
| 2 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 traditions | amod |
| 3 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 determined | mark |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 act | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 act | det |
| 8 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 determined | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 determined | nsubj |
| 10 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 determined | xcomp |
| 13 | Upolu | Upolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Hawaiian traditions | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | determine | past | Paao | after this act | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | Paao not said here | Upolu | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upolu=Theme |
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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