Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 37
In the thirteenth century “the white chief with the iron knife” was wrecked on the coast of the island of Maui, near the village Wailuku.
What happens: wreck · To what, where: white chief, 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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | thirteenth | thirteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrecked | obl |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 chief | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chief | amod |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrecked | nsubj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 knife | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knife | det |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knife | compound |
| 12 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chief | nmod |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 knife | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 15 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 coast | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coast | det |
| 18 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrecked | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 island | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 island | det |
| 21 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coast | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Maui | case |
| 23 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 island | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 village | punct |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 27 village | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 village | det |
| 27 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrecked | obl |
| 28 | Wailuku | Wailuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 village | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wrecked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wreck | past · passive | the white chief with the iron knife | the coast of the island of Maui | century | near the village | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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