Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 30
Five of the planets were known by the sea-rovers.
Who acts: sea rovers · What happens: know · To what, where: Five planets
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 (sea rovers), 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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 planets | nummod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 planets | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 planets | det |
| 4 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 known | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 known | aux:pass |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 rovers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rovers | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rovers | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sea | punct |
| 11 | rovers | rover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 known | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | the sea rovers | the Five planets | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
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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