Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 44
The Hawaiians came from all parts to see these remarkable strangers.
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: come, see · To what, where: parts, remarkable strangers
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 | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 parts | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 parts | det |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 strangers | det |
| 10 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strangers | amod |
| 11 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Hawaiians | all parts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from part=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the Hawaiians not said here | this remarkable strangers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
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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