Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 44
On he sailed with his family until he came to Hawaii—“the burning Java,” the land of volcanoes and earthquakes and of luxuriant valleys and fertile seacoasts.
Who acts: loa · What happens: sail, come, burn · To what, where: burning Java, Hawaii
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), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 sailed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 family | nmod:poss |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | obl |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Hawaii | case |
| 11 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Java | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Java | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Java | det |
| 15 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 Java | amod |
| 16 | Java | java | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 land | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 land | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Java | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 volcanoes | case |
| 22 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 land | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 earthquakes | cc |
| 24 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 volcanoes | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 valleys | cc |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 valleys | case |
| 27 | luxuriant | luxuriant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 valleys | amod |
| 28 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 volcanoes | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 seacoasts | cc |
| 30 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 seacoasts | amod |
| 31 | seacoasts | seacoast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 volcanoes | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | loa | the burning Java | with loa's family | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | loa | Hawaii | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hawaii=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | burn in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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