Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 98
He had the right to sail a canoe stained red, from the mast of which floated a pennant over a red sail.
Who acts: system, mast · What happens: have, sail, stain, float · To what, where: right, canoe, mast, pennant, red sail
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 (system, mast), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 right | det |
| 4 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sail | mark |
| 6 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | acl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 canoe | det |
| 8 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sail | obj |
| 9 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 canoe | acl |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stained | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mast | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 mast | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mast | det |
| 14 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sail | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 floated | nsubj |
| 17 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mast | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pennant | det |
| 19 | pennant | pennant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 floated | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 sail | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sail | det |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sail | amod |
| 23 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 floated | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | system | the right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sail | to-infinitive | system not said here | a canoe | the mast | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme from mast=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | stain | participle | a canoe not said here | red property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | float | past | the mast | a pennant | a red sail | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pennant=Theme over sail=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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