Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 13
It has names for every species of plant on the mountains or fish in the sea, and is peculiarly copious in terms relating to the ocean, the surf and waves.
Who acts: Hawaiian, terms · What happens: have, be, relate · To what, where: names, terms
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiian, terms), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 species | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 species | det |
| 6 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 names | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 plant | case |
| 8 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 species | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 mountains | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountains | det |
| 11 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plant | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 fish | cc |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mountains | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fish | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 copious | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 copious | cc |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 copious | cop |
| 20 | peculiarly | peculiarly | ADV | _ | 21 copious | advmod |
| 21 | copious | copious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 has | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 terms | case |
| 23 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 copious | obl |
| 24 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 terms | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 ocean | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ocean | det |
| 27 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 relating | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 surf | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 surf | det |
| 30 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 terms | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 waves | cc |
| 32 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 terms | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Hawaiian | names | for every species of plant on the mountains or fish in the sea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | Hawaiian not said here | terms and the surf and waves | copious, peculiarly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | relate | gerund | terms and the surf and waves not said here | to the ocean | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to ocean=Co-Theme |
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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