Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 35
Hawaii-loa found the fire islands—the islands somewhat like the old Java home, luxuriant and volcanic.
Who acts: Hawaii loa · What happens: find · To what, where: fire 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 (Hawaii loa), 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 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 loa | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hawaii | punct |
| 3 | loa | loa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 islands | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 islands | compound |
| 7 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 islands | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islands | det |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obl |
| 11 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 10 islands | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 home | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 15 | Java | Java | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 home | compound |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 islands | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 luxuriant | punct |
| 18 | luxuriant | luxuriant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 home | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 volcanic | cc |
| 20 | volcanic | volcanic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 home | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Hawaii loa | the fire islands | the islands like the old Java home and luxuriant and volcanic obl | 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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