Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 132
Then came the visit of “Paramount Blount,” who arrived in Honolulu March 29.
What happens: come, arrive, visit · To what, where: visit, Honolulu, Paramount
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 visit | det |
| 4 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Paramount | case |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Paramount | punct |
| 7 | Paramount | Paramount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 visit | nmod |
| 8 | Blount | Blount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Paramount | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 arrived | nsubj |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Honolulu | case |
| 14 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 arrived | obl |
| 15 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 29 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Honolulu | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the visit of Paramount | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location visit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Honolulu | who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | visit | Paramount | nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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