Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 139
Hundreds of canoes crossed the channel between the two islands and then coasted western Maui.
Who acts: Hundreds · What happens: cross, coast · To what, where: channel, western Maui
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 (Hundreds), 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 | Hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 canoes | case |
| 3 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hundreds | nmod |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 channel | det |
| 6 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obj |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 islands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islands | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 islands | nummod |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crossed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 coasted | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 coasted | advmod |
| 13 | coasted | coast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossed | conj |
| 14 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Maui | amod |
| 15 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 coasted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | Hundreds of canoes | the channel | between the two islands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Patient | |||
| 2 | coast | past | Hundreds of canoes not said here | western Maui | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maui=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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