Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 36
He proceeded as far as the village Wai-anae on the southwestern coast of the island.
Who acts: king · What happens: proceed · To what, where: southwestern coast
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 proceeded | nsubj |
| 2 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 far | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 proceeded | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proceeded | obl |
| 8 | Wai | Wai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 village | appos |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 anae | punct |
| 10 | anae | anae | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Wai | dep |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 coast | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coast | det |
| 13 | southwestern | southwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 coast | amod |
| 14 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proceeded | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coast | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | king | the southwestern coast of the island | as the village; far property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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