Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 47
His descendants, or at least such portion of his family as did not follow him on his voyage, seem to have moved from Java to the Molucca Islands and settled in Jilolo.
Who acts: such portion, descendants, chief · What happens: not follow, seem, move, settle, voyage · To what, where: chief, voyage, Molucca Islands, Java, Jilolo
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 (such portion, descendants, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 2 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 portion | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 portion | cc |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 least | case |
| 6 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 portion | nmod |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 portion | amod |
| 8 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 descendants | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 family | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 family | nmod:poss |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 portion | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 follow | mark |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 follow | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 follow | advmod |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 portion | acl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 follow | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 voyage | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 19 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follow | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 descendants | punct |
| 21 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 moved | mark |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 moved | aux |
| 24 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 seem | xcomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Java | case |
| 26 | Java | Java | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 moved | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Islands | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Islands | det |
| 29 | Molucca | Molucca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Islands | compound |
| 30 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 moved | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 settled | cc |
| 32 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 moved | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Jilolo | case |
| 34 | Jilolo | Jilolo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 settled | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not follow | past · do-support | such portion at least of chief's family not said here | chief | chief's voyage | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on voyage=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | seem | present | chief's descendants such portion at least of chief's family | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | move | to-infinitive · perfect | chief's descendants such portion at least of chief's family not said here | the Molucca Islands | Java | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from java=Initial_Location to island=Destination | |||
| 4 | settle | past | chief's descendants such portion at least of chief's family not said here | Jilolo | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jilolo=Location | ||||
| 5 | voyage | chief | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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