Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 26
Dr. Reinhold Forster, the celebrated naturalist of Captain Cook’s second voyage, drew up a table containing 47 words taken from 11 Oceanic dialects and the corresponding terms in Malay, Mexican, Peruvian and Chilian.
Who acts: Reinhold, table, Captain Cook · What happens: celebrate, draw up, contain, take, correspond, voyage · To what, where: table, 47 words, 11 Oceanic dialects
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 (Reinhold, table, Captain Cook), 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 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Reinhold | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Reinhold | Reinhold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | Forster | Forster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Reinhold | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 naturalist | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 naturalist | det |
| 6 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 naturalist | amod |
| 7 | naturalist | naturalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Reinhold | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 voyage | case |
| 9 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Cook | compound |
| 10 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Cook | case |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 voyage | amod |
| 13 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 naturalist | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Reinhold | punct |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 drew | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obj |
| 19 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 table | acl |
| 20 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 words | nummod |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 containing | obj |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 words | acl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 dialects | case |
| 24 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 dialects | nummod |
| 25 | Oceanic | oceanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dialects | amod |
| 26 | dialects | dialect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 taken | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 terms | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 terms | det |
| 29 | corresponding | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 terms | amod |
| 30 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dialects | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Malay | case |
| 32 | Malay | Malay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 terms | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Mexican | punct |
| 34 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Malay | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Peruvian | punct |
| 36 | Peruvian | Peruvian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Malay | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Chilian | cc |
| 38 | Chilian | Chilian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Malay | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | draw up | past | Reinhold Dr. | a table | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme | ||||
| 3 | contain | gerund | a table not said here | 47 words | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | participle | 47 words not said here | 11 Oceanic dialects and the corresponding terms in Malay and Peruvian and Chilian | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from dialect=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | correspond | gerund | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | voyage | Captain Cook | nom voyage «act 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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