Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 81
“O Kahiki, land of the far reaching ocean.
What happens: reach · To what, where: Kahiki
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kahiki | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Kahiki | discourse |
| 3 | Kahiki | Kahiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 land | punct |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Kahiki | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ocean | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ocean | det |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ocean | amod |
| 9 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ocean | amod |
| 10 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 land | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kahiki | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach in a quote | gerund | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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