Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 25
A great longing had taken possession of Moi-keha to see the foster son whom he had carried away many years before.
What happens: take, see, carry away · To what, where: great longing, foster son
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 longing | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 longing | amod |
| 3 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Moi | case |
| 8 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 possession | appos |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 keha | punct |
| 10 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Moi | dep |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 keha | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 14 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | compound |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 carried | aux |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 son | acl:relcl |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 carried | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 years | amod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 carried | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | a great longing | possession obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme possession=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the foster son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | carry away | past · perfect · passive | the foster son | year | Moi nsubj; away, before property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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