Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 48
After a little rest the Kauai fleet swept across the channel and passed down the eastern side of Hawaii.
Who acts: Kauai fleet · What happens: sweep, pass down · To what, where: channel, eastern side
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 (Kauai 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 rest | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rest | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rest | amod |
| 4 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swept | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fleet | det |
| 6 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fleet | compound |
| 7 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swept | nsubj |
| 8 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 channel | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 channel | det |
| 11 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swept | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 passed | cc |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 swept | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 passed | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 side | det |
| 16 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 side | amod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Hawaii | case |
| 19 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 side | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past | the Kauai fleet | the channel | after a little rest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across channel=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pass down | participle | the Kauai fleet not said here | the eastern side of Hawaii | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=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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