Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 6
The two boys, Moi-keha and Olopana, were born on the island of Oahu.
What happens: bear · To what, where: two boys, island
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 | 3 boys | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 boys | nummod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Moi | punct |
| 5 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 boys | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 keha | punct |
| 7 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 Moi | dep |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Olopana | cc |
| 9 | Olopana | Olopana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Moi | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 boys | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 born | aux:pass |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 island | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 island | det |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 born | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Oahu | case |
| 17 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 island | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the two boys | the island of Oahu | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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