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Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 59

One of the legends states that a priest desired to carry the Menehune people across the long stretch of ocean between the foreign lands and the Island of Oahu, therefore “he stretched out his hands to the farthest bounds of Tahiti and over him the Menehunes—the servants—crossed to Oahu.”

Who acts: One, priest · What happens: state, desire, carry, stretch out, cross · To what, where: Menehune people, long stretch, hands, servants, Oahu · 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 (One, priest), 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

nsubjcasedetnmodmarkdetnsubjccompmarkxcompdetcompoundobjcasedetamodoblcasenmodcasedetamodnmodccdetconjcasenmodpunctadvmodpunctnsubjconjcompound:prtnmod:possobjcasedetamodoblcasenmodcccaseobldetconjpunctdetparataxispunctaclcaseoblpunctpunctrootOneNUMofADPtheDETlegendsNOUNstatesVERBthatSCONJaDETpriestNOUNdesiredVERBtoPARTcarryVERBtheDETMenehunePROPNpeopleNOUNacrossADPtheDETlongADJstretchNOUNofADPoceanNOUNbetweenADPtheDETforeignADJlandsNOUNandCCONJtheDETIslandPROPNofADPOahuPROPN,PUNCTthereforeADV“PUNCThePRONstretchedVERBoutADPhisPRONhandsNOUNtoADPtheDETfarthestADJboundsNOUNofADPTahitiPROPNandCCONJoverADPhimPRONtheDETMenehunesPROPN—PUNCTtheDETservantsNOUN—PUNCTcrossedVERBtoADPOahuPROPN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card5 statesnsubj
2ofofADP_4 legendscase
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 legendsdet
4legendslegendNOUNNumber=Plur1 Onenmod
5statesstateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thatthatSCONJ_9 desiredmark
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 priestdet
8priestpriestNOUNNumber=Sing9 desirednsubj
9desireddesireVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 statesccomp
10totoPART_11 carrymark
11carrycarryVERBVerbForm=Inf9 desiredxcomp
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 peopledet
13MenehuneMenehunePROPNNumber=Sing14 peoplecompound
14peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur11 carryobj
15acrossacrossADP_18 stretchcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 stretchdet
17longlongADJDegree=Pos18 stretchamod
18stretchstretchNOUNNumber=Sing11 carryobl
19ofofADP_20 oceancase
20oceanoceanNOUNNumber=Sing18 stretchnmod
21betweenbetweenADP_24 landscase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 landsdet
23foreignforeignADJDegree=Pos24 landsamod
24landslandNOUNNumber=Plur20 oceannmod
25andandCCONJ_27 Islandcc
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 Islanddet
27IslandIslandPROPNNumber=Sing18 stretchconj
28ofofADP_29 Oahucase
29OahuOahuPROPNNumber=Sing27 Islandnmod
30,,PUNCT_34 stretchedpunct
31thereforethereforeADV_34 stretchedadvmod
32“"PUNCT_34 stretchedpunct
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 stretchednsubj
34stretchedstretchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 statesconj
35outoutADP_34 stretchedcompound:prt
36hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 handsnmod:poss
37handshandNOUNNumber=Plur34 stretchedobj
38totoADP_41 boundscase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 boundsdet
40farthestfarADJDegree=Sup41 boundsamod
41boundsboundNOUNNumber=Plur34 stretchedobl
42ofofADP_43 Tahiticase
43TahitiTahitiPROPNNumber=Sing41 boundsnmod
44andandCCONJ_48 Menehunescc
45overoverADP_46 himcase
46himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs48 Menehunesobl
47thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art48 Menehunesdet
48MenehunesMenehunePROPNNumber=Plur43 Tahiticonj
49—-PUNCT_51 servantspunct
50thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art51 servantsdet
51servantsservantNOUNNumber=Plur5 statesparataxis
52—-PUNCT_53 crossedpunct
53crossedcrossVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass51 servantsacl
54totoADP_55 Oahucase
55OahuOahuPROPNNumber=Sing53 crossedobl
56..PUNCT_51 servantspunct
57”"PUNCT_5 statespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1state speech: otherpresentOne of the legendsthe servants parataxisvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2desireparticiplea priestvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3carry not said to happento-infinitivea priest not said herethe Menehune peoplethe long stretch of ocean between the foreign lands and the Island of Oahuvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
4stretch out in a quotepastpriestpriest's handsto the farthest bounds of Tahiti and the Menehunes over Oahu result; therefore propertyvn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to bound=Result
5cross in a quoteparticiplethe servants not said hereOahuvn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oahu=Initial_Location

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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