Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 38
One of the harbours of Raiatea of the Tahitian Islands was known as Ava-Moa, the Moa Harbour, or “The Sacred Harbour.”
What happens: know · To what, where: One
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 harbours | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 harbours | det |
| 4 | harbours | harbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Raiatea | case |
| 6 | Raiatea | Raiatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 harbours | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Islands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Islands | det |
| 9 | Tahitian | Tahitian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Islands | compound |
| 10 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Raiatea | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 known | aux:pass |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Ava | case |
| 14 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 known | obl |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Moa | punct |
| 16 | Moa | Moa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ava | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Harbour | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Harbour | det |
| 19 | Moa | Moa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Harbour | compound |
| 20 | Harbour | Harbour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ava | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Harbour | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 Harbour | cc |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Harbour | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Harbour | det |
| 25 | Sacred | Sacred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Harbour | compound |
| 26 | Harbour | Harbour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 known | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 Harbour | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | One of the harbours of Raiatea of the Tahitian Islands | as Ava and Moa and the Moa Harbour; the Sacred Harbour parataxis | tree rules |
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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