Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 39
He sailed through the “dotted sea,” the sea with many islands lying near his old ancestral home, “the rainy Zaba”—the modern Zaba or Saba of the Arabian seacoast—from which his own name, “Hawa,” is easily derived.
Who acts: loa, many islands, modern Zaba · What happens: sail, dot, lie, name, derive · To what, where: sea, old ancestral home, rainy Zaba
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, many islands, modern Zaba), 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 sailed | nsubj |
| 2 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 6 dotted | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dotted | det |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dotted | punct |
| 6 | dotted | dot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sailed | advcl |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dotted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sea | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sea | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sailed | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 islands | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 islands | amod |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sailed | obl |
| 15 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 islands | acl |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 home | nmod:poss |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 home | amod |
| 19 | ancestral | ancestral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 home | amod |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lying | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Zaba | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Zaba | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Zaba | det |
| 24 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Zaba | amod |
| 25 | Zaba | Zaba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Zaba | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Zaba | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Zaba | det |
| 29 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Zaba | amod |
| 30 | Zaba | Zaba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Zaba | appos |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 Saba | cc |
| 32 | Saba | Saba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Zaba | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 seacoast | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 seacoast | det |
| 35 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 seacoast | amod |
| 36 | seacoast | seacoast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Saba | nmod |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 name | punct |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 name | nsubj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 name | nmod:poss |
| 41 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 name | amod |
| 42 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Zaba | appos |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Hawa | punct |
| 44 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 Hawa | punct |
| 45 | Hawa | Hawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Zaba | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Hawa | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Zaba | punct |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 derived | aux:pass |
| 49 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 50 derived | advmod |
| 50 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lying | advcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | loa | the sea | with many islands | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | dot in a quote | past | loa not said here | sea | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | many islands not said here | loa's old ancestral home | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near home=Location | ||||
| 4 | name | the modern Zaba or Saba of the Arabian seacoast | loa nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | derive | present · passive | the rainy Zaba | easily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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