Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 67
This chant had been clearly recited wherever Moi-keha had visited any of the islands, and now fell for the first time on the ears of the curious inhabitants of Kauai.
What happens: recite, visit, fall · To what, where: chant, Moi
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 chant | det |
| 2 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recited | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 recited | aux:pass |
| 5 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 6 recited | advmod |
| 6 | recited | recite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 visited | advmod |
| 8 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 visited | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Moi | punct |
| 10 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Moi | dep |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 visited | aux |
| 12 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 recited | advcl |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 visited | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 islands | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 islands | det |
| 16 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 any | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 fell | advmod |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recited | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 ears | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ears | det |
| 27 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 time | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 inhabitants | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 inhabitants | det |
| 30 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 inhabitants | amod |
| 31 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ears | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Kauai | case |
| 33 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 inhabitants | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recite | past · perfect · passive | this chant | clearly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | visit | past · perfect · passive | Moi | wherever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | now; time | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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