Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 51

If we sift the legends and then assume that in the course of three or four hundred years the family of the chief, Hawaii-loa, became extinct in Hawaii, leaving only the servants on the islands, we have at least a probable explanation of the coming of the so-called little people, or fairies, from the Southern Pacific to Hawaii.

Who acts: we, coming called little people · What happens: sift, assume, become, leave, have, come · To what, where: legends, course, servants, islands, probable explanation, least · 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 (we, coming called little people), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 sift	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sift	nsubj
3	sift	sift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 have	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 legends	det
5	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sift	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 assume	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 assume	advmod
8	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sift	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 became	mark
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 course	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 course	det
12	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 years	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hundred	compound
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 four	cc
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 three	conj
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 course	nmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 family	det
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 years	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 chief	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chief	det
23	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 family	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 loa	punct
25	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 loa	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Hawaii	punct
27	loa	loa	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 family	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 course	punct
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 assume	ccomp
30	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 became	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 Hawaii	case
32	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 extinct	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 leaving	punct
34	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 became	advcl
35	only	only	ADV	_	37 servants	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 servants	det
37	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 leaving	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 islands	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 islands	det
40	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 servants	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sift	punct
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
43	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 least	case
45	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 explanation	nmod
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 explanation	det
47	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 explanation	amod
48	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 have	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	58 people	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 people	det
51	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 people	amod
52	of	of	ADP	_	58 people	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 people	det
54	so	so	ADV	_	56 called	advmod
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 so	punct
56	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 people	amod
57	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 people	amod
58	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 explanation	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 fairies	punct
60	or	or	CCONJ	_	61 fairies	cc
61	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 people	conj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 Pacific	punct
63	from	from	ADP	_	66 Pacific	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 Pacific	det
65	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	66 Pacific	flat
66	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 people	appos
67	to	to	ADP	_	68 Hawaii	case
68	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 Pacific	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sift a condition, not said to happen	present	we	the legends				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Patient
2	assume	infinitive	we not said here			then		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	become	past	we not said here				in the course of hundred years result; extinct property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in course=Result
4	leave	gerund	we not said here	the servants	the islands			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent servant=Theme on island=Location
5	have	present	we	a probable explanation of the coming called little people or fairies	least			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Patient
6	come	gerund						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	call	participle						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	explain		the coming called little people or fairies					nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=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 51

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 51