Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 48
It is said that after he brought his family to Hawaii, new islands sprang out of the sea, well wooded and well watered.
Who acts: chief, new islands · What happens: say, bring, spring out, wood, water · To what, where: portion, family, Hawaii, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chief, new islands), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 brought | mark |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 brought | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Hawaii | case |
| 11 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sprang | punct |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 islands | amod |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sprang | nsubj |
| 15 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprang | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wooded | punct |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 wooded | advmod |
| 22 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sprang | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 watered | cc |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 watered | advmod |
| 25 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 wooded | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | portion | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | chief | chief's family | Hawaii | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent family=Theme to hawaii=Destination | |||
| 3 | spring out | past | new islands | the sea | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sea=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wood | participle | new islands not said here | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | water | participle | new islands not said here | well property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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