Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 26
Ti-i went almost directly east from the old home, and found the Society Islands.
Who acts: i · What happens: go, find · To what, where: old home, Society 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 (i), 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 | Ti | Ti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | vocative |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ti | punct |
| 3 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 directly | advmod |
| 6 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 7 east | advmod |
| 7 | east | east | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 home | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 home | amod |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Islands | det |
| 16 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Islands | compound |
| 17 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 found | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | i | the old home | Ti vocative; east property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | i not said here | the Society 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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