Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 14
For whatever belonged to their religions, their handicrafts or their amusements, their vocabulary was most copious and minute.
Who acts: whatever, vocabulary, terms · What happens: belong, be, amuse
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 (whatever, vocabulary, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 whatever | case |
| 2 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 belonged | nsubj |
| 3 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 religions | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 religions | nmod:poss |
| 6 | religions | religion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 belonged | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 handicrafts | punct |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 handicrafts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | handicrafts | handicraft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 religions | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 amusements | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 amusements | nmod:poss |
| 12 | amusements | amusement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 religions | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 copious | punct |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 vocabulary | nmod:poss |
| 15 | vocabulary | vocabulary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 copious | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 copious | cop |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 copious | advmod |
| 18 | copious | copious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 belonged | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 minute | cc |
| 20 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 copious | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | whatever | to terms's religions and terms's handicrafts or terms's amusements | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | terms's vocabulary | copious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | amuse | terms = term | nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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