Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 45
They were astonished to see the women eat the same kinds of food, and from the same dishes as the men.
Who acts: Hawaiians, women · What happens: be, see, eat · To what, where: same dishes, same kinds · Speech: someone speaks here
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, women), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 astonished | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 astonished | cop |
| 3 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 astonished | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 women | det |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kinds | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kinds | amod |
| 11 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 food | case |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kinds | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dishes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dishes | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 dishes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dishes | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dishes | amod |
| 19 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 astonished | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 men | det |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dishes | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | the same dishes as the men | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Hawaiians = hawaiian not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | eat | present | the women | the same kinds of food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=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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