Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 2
They were said to have come from far-off lands with the early settlers.
What happens: say, come · To what, where: monsters, off lands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas. 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 lands | case |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 lands | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 far | punct |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 lands | compound |
| 11 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 settlers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 settlers | det |
| 14 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 settlers | amod |
| 15 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lands | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | monsters = monster | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive · perfect | off lands with the early settlers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_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 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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