Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 18
The Hawaiians, watching them, waited until they rose, and received welcome.
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: watch, wait, rise, receive · To what, where: Hawaiians, welcome
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 (Hawaiians), 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 Hawaiians | det |
| 2 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 watching | punct |
| 4 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Hawaiians | acl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watching | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hawaiians | punct |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 rose | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waited | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 received | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 received | cc |
| 13 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waited | conj |
| 14 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 received | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | the Hawaiians not said here | Hawaiians = hawaiian | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | the Hawaiians | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rise | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | receive | past | the Hawaiians not said here | welcome | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent welcome=Theme |
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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