Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 17
The story of Laa, who, in late life, was known as “Laa from Tahiti,” must be reserved for later record.
What happens: know, reserve · To what, where: story, Tahiti
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Laa | case |
| 4 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 life | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 life | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 life | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 9 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 life | amod |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Laa | case |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Laa | punct |
| 16 | Laa | laa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Tahiti | case |
| 18 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 reserved | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tahiti | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tahiti | punct |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 reserved | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 reserved | aux:pass |
| 23 | reserved | reserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 known | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 record | case |
| 25 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 record | amod |
| 26 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reserved | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | the story of Laa and late life the story of Laa and late life the story | as Laa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as laa=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | reserve | must · passive | Tahiti | for later record | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: from tahiti=Source for record=Asset |
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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