Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 62
These are simply graphic descriptions of an eclipse, and also of a chief who carried his common people—his servants—with him across the waters.
Who acts: These, chief · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: graphic descriptions, common people
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 (These, 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 descriptions | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 descriptions | cop |
| 3 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 5 descriptions | advmod |
| 4 | graphic | graphic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 descriptions | amod |
| 5 | descriptions | description | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 eclipse | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 eclipse | det |
| 8 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 descriptions | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chief | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chief | cc |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 chief | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chief | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 descriptions | conj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 chief | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 people | nmod:poss |
| 18 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carried | obj |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 servants | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 servants | nmod:poss |
| 22 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 descriptions | conj |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 servants | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 servants | nmod |
| 26 | across | across | ADP | _ | 28 waters | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 waters | det |
| 28 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 servants | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 descriptions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | These | graphic descriptions and a chief and earth's servants with earth across the waters | of a eclipse; a chief conj; earth's servants with earth across the waters conj; simply property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry | past | a chief | earth's common people | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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