Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 41
In a few moments they were in a waiting canoe making their escape to Hawaii.
Who acts: gods, waiting canoe · What happens: be, make, escape · To what, where: waiting canoe, escape, Hawaii
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 (gods, waiting canoe), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 moments | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moments | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moments | amod |
| 4 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 canoe | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 canoe | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 canoe | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 canoe | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 canoe | det |
| 9 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 canoe | compound |
| 10 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 canoe | acl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 escape | nmod:poss |
| 13 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 making | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Hawaii | case |
| 15 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 making | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 canoe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gods = god | a waiting canoe | moment | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | a waiting canoe not said here | gods's escape | Hawaii | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product | |||
| 3 | escape | gods = god | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=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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