Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 35
The stars were easily observed and followed until Tahiti was found.
What happens: observe, follow, find · To what, where: stars, 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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stars | det |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 observed | aux:pass |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 observed | advmod |
| 5 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 followed | cc |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 observed | conj |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 found | mark |
| 9 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 followed | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past · passive | the stars | easily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | Tahiti | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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