Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 50

When the later sea-rovers came to Hawaii, possibly in the fifth or sixth century, they found the islands already inhabited by people of their own race, and yet apparently without a chief—probably a servant class.

Who acts: sea rovers, rovers, islands · What happens: come, find, inhabit, race · To what, where: Hawaii, islands

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 (sea rovers, rovers, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rovers	det
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 rovers	advmod
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rovers	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sea	punct
6	rovers	rover	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Hawaii	case
9	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 century	punct
11	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	17 century	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	17 century	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 century	det
14	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 century	amod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 sixth	cc
16	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fifth	conj
17	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 chief	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 islands	det
22	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 found	obj
23	already	already	ADV	_	24 inhabited	advmod
24	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 islands	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 people	case
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 inhabited	obl:agent
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 race	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 race	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 race	amod
30	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 people	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 chief	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 chief	cc
33	yet	yet	ADV	_	34 apparently	advmod
34	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	37 chief	advmod
35	without	without	ADP	_	37 chief	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 chief	det
37	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
38	—	-	PUNCT	_	42 class	punct
39	probably	probably	ADV	_	42 class	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 class	det
41	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 class	compound
42	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 chief	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 chief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the sea rovers		Hawaii	century		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hawaii=Initial_Location
2	find	past	rovers = rover	the islands				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic
3	inhabit	participle		the islands not said here			people of islands's own race obl:agent	tree rules
5	race		islands = island					nom race «event intransitive»: 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 50

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 50