Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 55
Gaetano passed through the northern part of the Pacific and discovered large islands which he marked upon a chart as “Los Majos.”
Who acts: Gaetano · What happens: pass, discover, mark · To what, where: northern part, large islands, chart
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 (Gaetano), 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 | Gaetano | Gaetano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 part | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 5 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 part | amod |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Pacific | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pacific | det |
| 9 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 discovered | cc |
| 11 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 islands | amod |
| 13 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 discovered | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 marked | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 marked | nsubj |
| 16 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 islands | acl:relcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 chart | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 chart | det |
| 19 | chart | chart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marked | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Los | case |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Los | punct |
| 22 | Los | Los | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 marked | obl |
| 23 | Majos | Majos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Los | flat |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Gaetano | the northern part of the Pacific | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through part=Location | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | Gaetano not said here | large islands | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mark | past | Gaetano | large islands | a chart | as Los | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme upon chart=Destination |
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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