Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 55
The Hawaiian Islands were fertile fields to greedy land-loving rovers of the seas.
Who acts: Hawaiian Islands · What happens: be · To what, where: fertile fields
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 (Hawaiian Islands), 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 | 3 Islands | det |
| 2 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Islands | amod |
| 3 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 fields | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fields | cop |
| 5 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fields | amod |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 rovers | case |
| 8 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rovers | amod |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loving | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 land | punct |
| 11 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rovers | amod |
| 12 | rovers | rover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fields | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 seas | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seas | det |
| 15 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rovers | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fields | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Hawaiian Islands | fertile fields | to greedy loving rovers of the seas | tree rules |
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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