Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 23
This woman, Luu-kia, was said to be a descendant of the Nanaulu line of chiefs, originally coming to Hawaii from Tahiti.
What happens: say, be, come · To what, where: descendant, Hawaii, Tahiti · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Luu | punct |
| 4 | Luu | Luu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 woman | appos |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 kia | punct |
| 6 | kia | Kia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Luu | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 woman | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux:pass |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 descendant | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 descendant | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 descendant | det |
| 13 | descendant | descendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 line | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 line | det |
| 16 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 line | compound |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 descendant | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 chiefs | case |
| 19 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 line | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 coming | punct |
| 21 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 22 coming | advmod |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Hawaii | case |
| 24 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Tahiti | case |
| 26 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | this woman parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a descendant | of the Nanaulu line of chiefs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | Hawaii | Tahiti | originally property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to hawaii=Initial_Location from tahiti=Destination |
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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