Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 82
The action of the ocean currents was supposed to be the malicious work of some strange deity.
Who acts: ocean currents · What happens: suppose, be, act · To what, where: action, malicious work
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 (ocean currents), 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 action | det |
| 2 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 currents | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 currents | det |
| 5 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 currents | compound |
| 6 | currents | current | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 action | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 supposed | aux:pass |
| 8 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 work | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 work | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 work | det |
| 12 | malicious | malicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 work | amod |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supposed | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 deity | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 deity | det |
| 16 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deity | amod |
| 17 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 work | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past · passive | the action of the ocean currents | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the malicious work | of some strange deity | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | act | the ocean currents | nom action «act intransitive»: of=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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