Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 1
Foreigners from all over the world called on the Hawaiians and remained with them forty years before the missionaries came.
Who acts: Foreigners · What happens: call, remain, come · To what, where: world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foreigners), 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 | Foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 world | advmod |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Foreigners | nmod |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 world | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Hawaiians | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hawaiians | det |
| 10 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 remained | cc |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 called | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 remained | obl |
| 15 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 missionaries | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 missionaries | det |
| 19 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | obl |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the world not said here | before the missionaries; year | the Hawaiians xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | remain | participle | with Foreigners = foreigner | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Foreigners from the world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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