Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 16
With these same uncles he sailed the many hundred miles to Tahiti.
Who acts: manhood · What happens: sail · To what, where: many hundred miles, Tahiti
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manhood), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 uncles | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 uncles | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 uncles | amod |
| 4 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sailed | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sailed | nsubj |
| 6 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 miles | det |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 miles | amod |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 miles | nummod |
| 10 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sailed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Tahiti | case |
| 12 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 miles | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | manhood | the many hundred miles | Tahiti | with this same uncles | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mile=Theme to tahiti=Trajectory |
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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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