Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 49
He sent his flag to China at the masthead of a ship he had purchased for the sandalwood trade.
Who acts: Kauai · What happens: send, purchase · To what, where: flag, China, masthead, ship
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: who acts (Kauai), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 flag | nmod:poss |
| 4 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 China | case |
| 6 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 masthead | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 masthead | det |
| 9 | masthead | masthead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 masthead | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 purchased | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 purchased | aux |
| 15 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 ship | acl:relcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 trade | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trade | det |
| 18 | sandalwood | sandalwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trade | compound |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 purchased | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Kauai | Kauai's flag | China | the masthead of a ship | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flag=Theme to china=Destination | ||
| 2 | purchase | past · perfect | Kauai | a ship not said here | for the sandalwood trade | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent ship=Theme for trade=Asset |
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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