Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 16
He is reported as making long journeys and discovering the Hawaiian Islands.
What happens: report, make, discover · To what, where: first, long journeys, Hawaiian 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: 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 | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 making | mark |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 reported | advcl |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journeys | amod |
| 7 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 making | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 discovering | cc |
| 9 | discovering | discover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 making | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Islands | det |
| 11 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Islands | compound |
| 12 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 discovering | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | present · passive | first | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | long journeys | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | |||||
| 3 | discover | gerund | the Hawaiian Islands | vn discover-84-1 «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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