Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 5
Their ships returned from these voyages laden with the fragrant products of the spice lands.
Who acts: ships, fragrant products · What happens: return, lade, land · To what, where: voyages
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 (ships, fragrant products), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ships | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 voyages | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 voyages | det |
| 6 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 voyages | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 products | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 products | det |
| 10 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 products | amod |
| 11 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laden | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 spice | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spice | det |
| 14 | spice | spice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lands | obl |
| 15 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 products | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | fleets's ships | this voyages | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from voyage=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | this voyages not said here | with the fragrant products | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | land | present | the fragrant products not said here | of the spice | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=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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