Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 14
The missionaries landed at Kailua on the island Hawaii, April 4, 1820, and there divided their party, the larger number coming to “Hanaroorah, Honolulu, April 19.”
Who acts: missionaries, larger number · What happens: land, divide, come · To what, where: 4, Kailua, party, Hanaroorah
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 (missionaries, larger number), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 missionaries | det |
| 2 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Kailua | case |
| 5 | Kailua | Kailua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 landed | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 island | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 island | det |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 landed | obl |
| 9 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 island | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 4 | punct |
| 11 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 4 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 landed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 1820 | punct |
| 14 | 1820 | 1820 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 4 | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 divided | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 divided | cc |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 divided | advmod |
| 18 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 landed | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 party | nmod:poss |
| 20 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 divided | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 number | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 number | det |
| 23 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 number | amod |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 party | conj |
| 25 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 number | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Hanaroorah | case |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Hanaroorah | punct |
| 28 | Hanaroorah | Hanaroorah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 coming | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Honolulu | punct |
| 30 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Hanaroorah | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 19 | punct |
| 32 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 19 | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 divided | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | the missionaries | 4 April | Kailua | on the island | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on island=Destination | ||
| 2 | divide | past | the missionaries not said here | missionaries's party and the larger number | there | 19 April obl | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme | ||
| 3 | come | gerund | the larger number not said here | Hanaroorah and Honolulu | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hanaroorah=Initial_Location |
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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