Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 32
He is recorded as visiting many foreign lands.
What happens: record, visit · To what, where: Pau, many foreign lands
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: 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 | 3 recorded | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 recorded | aux:pass |
| 3 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 visiting | mark |
| 5 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 recorded | advcl |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lands | amod |
| 7 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lands | amod |
| 8 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 visiting | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recorded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present · passive | Pau | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | visit | gerund | many foreign lands | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Co-Agent |
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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