Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 13
One only, under the command of Saavedra, reached its destination.
Who acts: One command · What happens: reach, command · To what, where: destination, Saavedra · 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 (One command), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 command | nummod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 command | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 only | punct |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 command | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 command | det |
| 6 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Saavedra | case |
| 8 | Saavedra | Saavedra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 command | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 command | punct |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 destination | nmod:poss |
| 12 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the One command of Saavedra | command's destination | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent destination=Theme | ||||
| 2 | command | Saavedra | nom command «communication transitive»: of=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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