Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 85
Laa-mao-mao was in the canoe with him, holding strong winds in his calabash.
Who acts: Laa mao mao, canoe · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: canoe, strong winds, calabash
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 (Laa mao mao, canoe), 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 | Laa | laa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mao | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Laa | punct |
| 3 | mao | mao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mao | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 mao | punct |
| 5 | mao | mao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 canoe | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 canoe | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 canoe | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 canoe | det |
| 9 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 canoe | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 holding | punct |
| 13 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 canoe | acl |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 winds | amod |
| 15 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 holding | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 calabash | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 calabash | nmod:poss |
| 18 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holding | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 canoe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Laa mao mao | the canoe | with Moi | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the canoe not said here | strong winds | Moi's calabash | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wind=Theme in calabash=Location |
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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