Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 50
Other hints are found of ships having been seen out on the ocean by fishing parties who had gone far from land.
Who acts: fishing parties · What happens: find, see out, fish, go · To what, where: Other hints, ocean, land · 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 (fishing parties), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hints | amod |
| 2 | hints | hint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux:pass |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ships | case |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | obl |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 seen | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 found | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 seen | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ocean | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ocean | det |
| 13 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 parties | case |
| 15 | fishing | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 parties | amod |
| 16 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | aux |
| 19 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 parties | acl:relcl |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 land | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gone | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | Other hints | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see out | gerund · perfect · passive | fishing parties | the ocean | of ships | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | fish | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | fishing parties | land | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location |
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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