Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 16
The account in the Kuokoa, a newspaper published in the native language, in 1867, adds to the story of the foreigner the element of superstition, and is practically as follows:
Who acts: account · What happens: publish, add, be · To what, where: newspaper, native language
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (account), 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 | 2 account | det |
| 2 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 adds | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Kuokoa | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Kuokoa | det |
| 5 | Kuokoa | Kuokoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 account | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 newspaper | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 newspaper | det |
| 8 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Kuokoa | appos |
| 9 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 newspaper | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 language | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 language | det |
| 12 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 language | amod |
| 13 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 published | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 1867 | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1867 | case |
| 16 | 1867 | 1867 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 published | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 account | punct |
| 18 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 story | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 adds | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 foreigner | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 foreigner | det |
| 24 | foreigner | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 story | nmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 element | det |
| 26 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 foreigner | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 superstition | case |
| 28 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 element | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 follows | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 follows | cc |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 follows | cop |
| 32 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 34 follows | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 follows | mark |
| 34 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 adds | conj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | participle | a newspaper not said here | the native language | in 1867 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | the account in the Kuokoa | to the story of the foreigner | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to story=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the account in the Kuokoa not said here | follow, practically property | tree rules |
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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