Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 39
Wakalana, a chief, took his outrigger canoe through the surf and rescued them.
Who acts: Wakalana · What happens: take, rescue · To what, where: outrigger canoe, surf, chiefs
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 (Wakalana), 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 | Wakalana | Wakalana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chief | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wakalana | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wakalana | punct |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | outrigger | outrigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 canoe | compound |
| 9 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 surf | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surf | det |
| 12 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rescued | cc |
| 14 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rescued | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Wakalana | Wakalana's outrigger canoe | the surf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | |||
| 2 | rescue | past | Wakalana not said here | chiefs = chief | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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