Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 38
He took them from “the land where his forefathers dwelt before him.”
Who acts: loa, forefathers · What happens: take, dwell · To what, where: islands, 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 (loa, forefathers), 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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 land | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 dwelt | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 forefathers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | forefathers | forefather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dwelt | nsubj |
| 11 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 land | acl:relcl |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dwelt | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | loa | islands = island | the land | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from land=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dwell in a quote | past | loa's forefathers | before loa | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
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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