Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 70
Puna, the king, had a daughter who belonged to the fairy tale period of Europe rather than to the free giving and taking in marriage of the Hawaiians.
Who acts: Puna, daughter · What happens: have, belong, give, take, marry · To what, where: daughter, marriage, Hawaiians
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 (Puna, daughter), 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 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Puna | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Puna | punct |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 belonged | nsubj |
| 10 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 period | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 period | det |
| 13 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 period | amod |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 period | compound |
| 15 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 belonged | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Europe | case |
| 17 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 period | nmod |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 10 belonged | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 rather | fixed |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 rather | fixed |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 free | det |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rather | conj |
| 23 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 free | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 taking | cc |
| 25 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 giving | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 marriage | case |
| 27 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taking | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Hawaiians | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Hawaiians | det |
| 30 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 marriage | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Puna | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | a daughter | to the fairy tale period of Europe | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | a daughter not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | take | gerund | a daughter not said here | marriage of the Hawaiians | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in marriage=Location | ||||
| 5 | marry | the Hawaiians | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=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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