Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 5
These genealogies formed the most essential part of Hawaiian literature.
Who acts: genealogies · What happens: form · To what, where: essential part
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 (genealogies), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 genealogies | det |
| 2 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 essential | advmod |
| 6 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 formed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 literature | case |
| 9 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 literature | amod |
| 10 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | this genealogies | the essential part of Hawaiian literature | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=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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