Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 46
Evidently a Polynesian chief of high rank gathered a number of adherents or members of his tribe, and sailed eastward over the Pacific, about the beginning of the Christian era.
Who acts: Polynesian chief · What happens: gather, sail, begin · To what, where: number, Pacific, Christian era
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 (Polynesian chief), 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 | Evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 8 gathered | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 3 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chief | amod |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gathered | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rank | case |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rank | amod |
| 7 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | nmod |
| 8 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gathered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 adherents | case |
| 12 | adherents | adherent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 members | cc |
| 14 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 adherents | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tribe | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 members | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sailed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sailed | cc |
| 20 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gathered | conj |
| 21 | eastward | eastward | ADV | _ | 20 sailed | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 Pacific | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Pacific | det |
| 24 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sailed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 beginning | punct |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 beginning | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 beginning | det |
| 28 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sailed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 era | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 era | det |
| 31 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 era | amod |
| 32 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 beginning | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | a Polynesian chief of high rank | a number of adherents or members of chief's tribe | evidently property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | |||
| 2 | sail | past | a Polynesian chief of high rank not said here | the Pacific | about the beginning of the Christian era | eastward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over pacific=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | begin | the Christian era | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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