Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 92
“Wandering about, the only Hawaiian there.
What happens: wonder · To what, where: only Hawaiian
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 | _ | 2 Wandering | punct |
| 2 | Wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 Wandering | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wandering | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hawaiian | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hawaiian | amod |
| 7 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Wandering | obj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Wandering | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wandering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | gerund | the only Hawaiian | there | about property | tree rules |
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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