Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 15
The brothers, who were great warriors, determined to sail away, find a new land and conquer it by fighting.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: be, determine, sail away, find, conquer, fight · To what, where: great warriors, new land, land
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 warriors | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 warriors | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 warriors | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 warriors | cop |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 warriors | amod |
| 7 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 determined | punct |
| 9 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 warriors | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sail | mark |
| 11 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 determined | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 sail | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sail | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 land | amod |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 conquer | cc |
| 19 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sail | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 conquer | obj |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 fighting | mark |
| 22 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 conquer | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 warriors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the brothers | great warriors | who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | determine | participle | great warriors not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sail away | to-infinitive | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | infinitive | a new land | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic | |||||
| 5 | conquer | infinitive | land | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 6 | fight | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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