Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 49
The above quotations are from Lorrin Andrew’s Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language, containing some 15,500 Hawaiian words, printed in Honolulu in 1865.
Who acts: above quotations · What happens: be, contain, print · To what, where: Dictionary, 15,500 Hawaiian words, Honolulu
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (above quotations), 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 quotations | det |
| 2 | above | above | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quotations | amod |
| 3 | quotations | quotation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Dictionary | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Dictionary | cop |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Dictionary | case |
| 6 | Lorrin | Lorrin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Andrew | compound |
| 7 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dictionary | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Andrew | case |
| 9 | Dictionary | Dictionary | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Language | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Language | det |
| 12 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Language | compound |
| 13 | Language | Language | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dictionary | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 containing | punct |
| 15 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 Dictionary | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 words | det |
| 17 | 15,500 | 15,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 words | nummod |
| 18 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | amod |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 containing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 printed | punct |
| 21 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 words | acl | |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Honolulu | case |
| 23 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 printed | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1865 | case |
| 25 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 printed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dictionary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the above quotations | Lorrin Andrew's Dictionary | of the Hawaiian Language; Lorrin Andrew nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | the above quotations not said here | some 15,500 Hawaiian words | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | participle | some 15,500 Hawaiian words not said here | Honolulu | in 1865 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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