Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 14
A fierce storm drove the little squadron far north of the ordinary route, and swept two of the ships out of the record of history.
Who acts: fierce storm · What happens: drive, sweep, record · To what, where: little squadron, two, record, history
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 (fierce storm), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 2 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 storm | amod |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 squadron | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 squadron | amod |
| 7 | squadron | squadron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drove | obj |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 north | advmod |
| 9 | north | north | ADV | _ | 4 drove | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 route | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 route | det |
| 12 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 route | amod |
| 13 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 north | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swept | cc |
| 16 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drove | conj |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 swept | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ships | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ships | det |
| 20 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 two | nmod |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 record | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 record | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 record | det |
| 24 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swept | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 history | case |
| 26 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 record | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | a fierce storm | the little squadron | north property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme squadron=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sweep | past | a fierce storm not said here | two of the ships | the record of history | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent two=Theme out record=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | record | history | nom record «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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