Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 74
For three or four hundred years no voyagers had found their way to foreign lands.
What happens: find · To what, where: voyagers
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 four | cc |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 three | conj |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | obl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 voyagers | det |
| 8 | voyagers | voyager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 lands | case |
| 14 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lands | amod |
| 15 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect · passive | no voyagers | year | to foreign lands; voyagers's way obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme way=Attribute |
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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