Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 104

He found the white man’s home, where the “land was ‘within,’” i.e., lying to the east, with the sun “outside,” i.e., westward over the waters, most of the day.

Who acts: Ku, home · What happens: find, lie · To what, where: waters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ku, home), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 home	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 man	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lying	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 was	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 land	det
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 land	punct
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lying	aux
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 within	punct
15	within	within	ADP	_	21 lying	aux
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 within	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 within	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 within	punct
19	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	21 lying	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lying	punct
21	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 east	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 east	det
24	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sun	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 sun	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun	det
28	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lying	obl
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 outside	punct
30	outside	outside	ADV	_	28 sun	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 outside	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 sun	punct
33	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	28 sun	dep
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 waters	punct
35	westward	westward	ADV	_	38 waters	advmod
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 waters	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 waters	det
38	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lying	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 most	punct
40	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 waters	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 day	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 day	det
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 most	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Ku						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lie	past	the white man's home			the waters most of the day		to the east; with the sun; i.e. property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 104

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 104