Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 37
The large island was full of delight to the bold navigator, and he determined to bring his family to this new land for their permanent home.
Who acts: large island, loa · What happens: be, determine, bring · To what, where: family, new land
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 (large island, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 island | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 island | amod |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 delight | case |
| 7 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 navigator | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 navigator | det |
| 10 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 navigator | amod |
| 11 | navigator | navigator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 determined | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 determined | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 determined | nsubj |
| 15 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 determined | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 family | nmod:poss |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 land | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 land | amod |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 home | nmod:poss |
| 26 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 home | amod |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the large island | of delight to the bold navigator; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | determine | past | loa | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | loa not said here | loa's family | this new land | for islands's permanent home | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent family=Theme to land=Destination |
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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