Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 12
They named the countries newly discovered after their own fancies, as Flatland, Woodland, and Vinland, for Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, respectively.
Who acts: Vikings, countries · What happens: name, discover, fancy
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, countries), 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 named | nsubj |
| 2 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 countries | det |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 discovered | nsubj |
| 5 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 6 discovered | advmod |
| 6 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 named | ccomp |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 fancies | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fancies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fancies | amod |
| 10 | fancies | fancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 discovered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Flatland | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Flatland | case |
| 13 | Flatland | Flatland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fancies | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Woodland | punct |
| 15 | Woodland | Woodland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Flatland | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Vinland | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Vinland | cc |
| 18 | Vinland | Vinland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Flatland | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Newfoundland | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Newfoundland | case |
| 21 | Newfoundland | Newfoundland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Flatland | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Nova | punct |
| 23 | Nova | Nova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Flatland | appos |
| 24 | Scotia | Scotia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Nova | flat |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Massachusetts | cc |
| 26 | Massachusetts | Massachusetts | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Flatland | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 respectively | punct |
| 28 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 13 Flatland | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past | Vikings = viking | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | discover | past | the countries | after Vikings's own fancies as Flatland and Vinland and Newfoundland and Massachusetts | newly property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | fancy | Vikings = viking | as Flatland and Vinland and Newfoundland and Massachusetts | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |
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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