Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 64
The vikings passed away and their descendants failed to conquer the dangers of the seas.
Who acts: vikings, descendants · What happens: pass away, fail, not conquer · To what, where: dangers
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 (vikings, descendants), 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 vikings | det |
| 2 | vikings | viking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 failed | cc |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 7 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 failed | nsubj |
| 8 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 conquer | mark |
| 10 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 failed | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dangers | det |
| 12 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 conquer | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 seas | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seas | det |
| 15 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dangers | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | the vikings | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fail | past | islands's descendants | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not conquer | to-infinitive | islands's descendants not said here | the dangers of the seas | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Patient |
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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