Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 39
Fornander justly argues that there is little doubt that this was the place selected by Olopana as his permanent home.
Who acts: Fornander, little doubt, this · What happens: argue, be, select · To what, where: place
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: who acts (Fornander, little doubt, this), 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 | Fornander | Fornander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 argues | nsubj |
| 2 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 3 argues | advmod |
| 3 | argues | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 is | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 argues | advcl |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 doubt | amod |
| 8 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 place | mark |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 place | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doubt | acl |
| 14 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 place | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Olopana | case |
| 16 | Olopana | Olopana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 selected | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 home | nmod:poss |
| 19 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 home | amod |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 selected | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 argues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Fornander | justly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | present | little doubt | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | select | participle | the place not said here | by Olopana; as Olopana's permanent home | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as home=Attribute |
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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