Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 65
The legends say, “The priest flew like a bird to the canoes” and was warmly received by Paao.
Who acts: legends, priest, Paao · What happens: say, fly, receive · To what, where: canoes · 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 (legends, priest, 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 | 2 legends | det |
| 2 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 priest | det |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 canoes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 canoes | det |
| 14 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | obl |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 received | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 received | aux:pass |
| 18 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 19 received | advmod |
| 19 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 flew | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Paao | case |
| 21 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 received | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the legends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fly in a quote | past | the priest | the canoes | like a bird | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to canoe=Destination | |||
| 3 | receive | past · passive | Paao | warmly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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