Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 122
Each of these priests could look back through a straight line of ancestors, to the days of the Vikings of the Pacific and the sea voyages of the eleventh century.
Who acts: priests · What happens: look back, voyage · To what, where: eleventh century
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priests), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 priests | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 priests | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 priests | det |
| 4 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | aux |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 look | advmod |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 line | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 line | det |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 line | amod |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ancestors | case |
| 13 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 line | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 days | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 days | det |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Vikings | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Vikings | det |
| 20 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 days | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Pacific | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Pacific | det |
| 23 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Vikings | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 voyages | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 voyages | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 voyages | compound |
| 27 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Pacific | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 century | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 century | det |
| 30 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 century | amod |
| 31 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 voyages | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | could | each priests | day | through a straight line of ancestors | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through line=Theme | |||
| 2 | voyage | the eleventh century | nom voyage «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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