Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 34
The canoes were fitted with triangular sails made from the leaves of the hala tree, while brilliant pennants floated from every mast head.
Who acts: brilliant pennants · What happens: fit, make, float · To what, where: canoes, triangular sails, leaves, mast head
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brilliant pennants), 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 canoes | det |
| 2 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fitted | aux:pass |
| 4 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sails | case |
| 6 | triangular | triangular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sails | amod |
| 7 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fitted | obl |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sails | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 leaves | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leaves | det |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | hala | hala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaves | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 floated | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 floated | mark |
| 18 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pennants | amod |
| 19 | pennants | pennant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 floated | nsubj |
| 20 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fitted | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 head | det |
| 23 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 head | compound |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 floated | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | past · passive | the canoes | with triangular sails | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | triangular sails not said here | the leaves of the hala tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from leaf=Material | ||||
| 3 | float | participle | brilliant pennants | every mast head | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from head=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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