Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 35
For example, the Marquesan converts are using Hawaiian books and the people of the Austral Islands read the Tahitian Bible.”
Who acts: Marquesan converts, people · What happens: use, read · To what, where: Hawaiian books, Tahitian Bible
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 (Marquesan converts, people), 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 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 using | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 converts | det |
| 5 | Marquesan | Marquesan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 converts | compound |
| 6 | converts | convert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 using | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 using | aux |
| 8 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 books | amod |
| 10 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 using | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 read | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 read | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Islands | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Islands | det |
| 16 | Austral | Austral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Islands | compound |
| 17 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 people | nmod |
| 18 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 using | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bible | det |
| 20 | Tahitian | Tahitian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bible | compound |
| 21 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 read | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 using | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 using | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · progressive | the Marquesan converts | Hawaiian books | for example | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent book=Theme for example=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | read | past | the people of the Austral Islands | the Tahitian Bible | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bible=Topic |
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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