Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 6
Moi-keha sailed away from the Hawaiian Islands with his brother Olopana and his nephew Laa.
Who acts: Moi keha · What happens: sail away · To what, where: Hawaiian Islands
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 (Moi keha), 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 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 keha | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moi | punct |
| 3 | keha | keha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Islands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Islands | det |
| 8 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Islands | compound |
| 9 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 sailed | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | obl |
| 13 | Olopana | Olopana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 nephew | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Olopana | conj |
| 17 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Olopana | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail away | past | Moi keha | the Hawaiian Islands | with keha's brother; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from island=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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