Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 34
Judge Fornander suggests that quite possibly these were Indians from the American coast.
Who acts: you, Fornander, that · What happens: judge, suggest, be · To what, where: Indians, American coast
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 (you, Fornander, that), 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 | Judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Fornander | Fornander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 suggests | nsubj |
| 3 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Judge | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 Indians | nsubj |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 possibly | advmod |
| 6 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 9 Indians | advmod |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 Indians | det |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Indians | cop |
| 9 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 suggests | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 coast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coast | det |
| 12 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coast | amod |
| 13 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Indians | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Judge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | imperative | you not said here | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | present | Fornander | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | this Indians | the American coast | possibly property | tree rules |
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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