Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 10
They swept the European coast; they infested Mediterranean waters; they found the North Atlantic islands.
Who acts: Vikings · What happens: sweep, infest, find · To what, where: European coast, Mediterranean waters, Atlantic islands
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vikings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swept | nsubj |
| 2 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coast | det |
| 4 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coast | amod |
| 5 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swept | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 infested | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 infested | nsubj |
| 8 | infested | infest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swept | conj |
| 9 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 waters | compound |
| 10 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 infested | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swept | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 islands | det |
| 15 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Atlantic | compound |
| 16 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 islands | compound |
| 17 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 found | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past | Vikings = viking | the European coast | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coast=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | infest | past | Vikings = viking | Mediterranean waters | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Vikings = viking | the Atlantic islands | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic |
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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