Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 66
Brave lover of the sea and founder of nations, Hawaii-loa deserves first place among the Vikings of the Pacific.
Who acts: Brave lover · What happens: deserve · To what, where: first place
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 (Brave lover), 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 | Brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lover | amod |
| 2 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deserves | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lover | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 founder | cc |
| 7 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sea | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 nations | case |
| 9 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 founder | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lover | punct |
| 11 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 loa | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hawaii | punct |
| 13 | loa | loa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deserves | nsubj |
| 14 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 place | amod |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deserves | obj |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 Vikings | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Vikings | det |
| 19 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 deserves | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Pacific | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Pacific | det |
| 22 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Vikings | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 deserves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present | Brave lover of the sea and founder of nations | first place | among the Vikings of the Pacific; Hawaii loa nsubj | tree rules |
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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