Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 22
None of the islands have so good a tradition of these turbulent times as the Hawaiian group, and they have only a statement made by William Ellis in his book, “A Tour through Hawaii,” published in 1826.
Who acts: None, islands · What happens: have, make, publish · To what, where: good tradition, statement, book, 1826
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None, islands), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 have | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 islands | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 islands | det |
| 4 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 None | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tradition | amod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tradition | det |
| 9 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 times | det |
| 12 | turbulent | turbulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tradition | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 group | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 group | det |
| 16 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 group | compound |
| 17 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 times | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | conj |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 statement | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 statement | det |
| 24 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 statement | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 William | case |
| 27 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl:agent |
| 28 | Ellis | Ellis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 William | flat |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 book | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 book | nmod:poss |
| 31 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl:agent |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tour | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tour | punct |
| 34 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 Tour | det |
| 35 | Tour | Tour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 book | appos |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 Hawaii | case |
| 37 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Tour | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tour | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tour | punct |
| 40 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 book | acl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 1826 | case |
| 42 | 1826 | 1826 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 published | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | None of the islands | a good tradition of this turbulent times as the Hawaiian group | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | islands = island | a statement | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statement=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a statement not said here | William obl:agent; William's book obl:agent | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | publish | participle | William's book not said here | 1826 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/25/22/