Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 20
Word had been passed from one to the other and a secret expedition partially outlined.
Who acts: secret expedition · What happens: pass, outline · To what, where: Word
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secret expedition), 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 | Word | Word | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 passed | aux:pass |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 passed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 other | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 outlined | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 expedition | det |
| 12 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 expedition | amod |
| 13 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 outlined | nsubj |
| 14 | partially | partially | ADV | _ | 15 outlined | advmod |
| 15 | outlined | outline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | Word | from one to the other | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from one=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | outline speech: other | past | a secret expedition | partially property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: 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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