Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 15
Almost every stick in a native house had its appropriate name.
Who acts: stick · What happens: have, name · To what, where: appropriate name
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 (stick), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 stick | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 stick | det |
| 3 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stick | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | amod |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | every stick in a native house | stick's appropriate name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | stick | nom name «communication 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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