Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 99
The chant states that the king was “wandering about,” probably driven by the winds far south from the islands.
Who acts: chant, king · What happens: state, wonder, drive · To what, where: islands · 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 (chant, king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chant | det |
| 2 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 states | nsubj |
| 3 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wandering | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandering | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wandering | aux |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wandering | punct |
| 9 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 driven | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 wandering | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 about | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wandering | punct |
| 13 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 14 driven | advmod |
| 14 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 states | ccomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 winds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 winds | det |
| 17 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 driven | obl |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 south | advmod |
| 19 | south | south | ADV | _ | 14 driven | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 islands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 islands | det |
| 22 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 driven | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 states | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present | the chant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | past · progressive | the king | about property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | drive | participle | the islands | by the winds; probably, south property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from island=Trajectory |
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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