Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 34
Probably some of them had carelessly watched the approach of eight chiefs of Oahu.
Who acts: eight chiefs · What happens: watch, approach · To what, where: some
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 (eight chiefs), 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 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 7 watched | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 some | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watched | aux |
| 6 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 7 watched | advmod |
| 7 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 approach | det |
| 9 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 chiefs | case |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 chiefs | nummod |
| 12 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 approach | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Oahu | case |
| 14 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 chiefs | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect · passive | some of warriors | the approach of eight chiefs of Oahu obj; carelessly, probably property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme approach=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | approach | eight chiefs of Oahu | nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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