Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 55
Places were named after some of them and other places given to others for their future residence.
What happens: name, give · To what, where: Places, other places, others
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 | Places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 named | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 named | aux:pass |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 some | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 named | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 some | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 places | cc |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 places | amod |
| 10 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 them | conj |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 places | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 others | case |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 given | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 residence | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 residence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 residence | amod |
| 17 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | Places | after some of voyages | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | other places not said here | others | for voyages's future residence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient for residence=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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