Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 38
One fleet of canoes under the Kauai king rendezvoused his boats at Hana, an old and well-known harbour on Maui just across the channel from Hawaii.
Who acts: One fleet · What happens: rendezvous, know · To what, where: boats, Hana
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One fleet), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 fleet | nummod |
| 2 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rendezvoused | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 canoes | case |
| 4 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fleet | nmod |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 7 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rendezvoused | obl |
| 9 | rendezvoused | rendezvous | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 boats | nmod:poss |
| 11 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rendezvoused | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Hana | case |
| 13 | Hana | Hana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rendezvoused | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 harbour | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 harbour | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 harbour | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 known | cc |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 known | advmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 well | punct |
| 20 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 old | conj |
| 21 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Hana | appos |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 Maui | case |
| 23 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 harbour | nmod |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 channel | advmod |
| 25 | across | across | ADP | _ | 27 channel | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 channel | det |
| 27 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rendezvoused | obl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 Hawaii | case |
| 29 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 channel | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rendezvoused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rendezvous | past | One fleet of canoes | fleet's boats | Hana | under the Kauai king; across the channel from Hawaii | tree rules | ||
| 2 | know | participle | One fleet of canoes not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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