Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 9
The Vikings, “sea kings,” as they are often named, the “wickel-ings,” as Froude calls them, the men who sailed out from the “vicks,” the fjords of the Scandinavian coast, were brave mariners.
Who acts: Vikings, Froude, men · What happens: name, call, sail out, be · To what, where: Vikings, vicks, brave mariners · 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 (Vikings, Froude, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Vikings | det |
| 2 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 47 mariners | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kings | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 kings | punct |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kings | compound |
| 6 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Vikings | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vikings | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vikings | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 named | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 named | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 named | aux:pass |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 named | advmod |
| 13 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Vikings | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ings | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ings | det |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ings | punct |
| 17 | wickel | wickel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ings | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 wickel | punct |
| 19 | ings | ing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Vikings | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ings | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ings | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 calls | mark |
| 23 | Froude | Froude | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 calls | nsubj |
| 24 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ings | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 calls | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 men | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 men | det |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Vikings | appos |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 sailed | nsubj |
| 30 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 men | acl:relcl |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 sailed | compound:prt |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 vicks | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 vicks | det |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 vicks | punct |
| 35 | vicks | vick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 sailed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vikings | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vikings | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fjords | det |
| 39 | fjords | fjord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Vikings | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 coast | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 coast | det |
| 42 | Scandinavian | scandinavian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 coast | amod |
| 43 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fjords | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vikings | punct |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 mariners | cop |
| 46 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 mariners | amod |
| 47 | mariners | mariner | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 mariners | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present · passive | the Vikings the fjords of the Scandinavian coast and sea kings not said here | Vikings = viking | often property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | present | Froude | Vikings = viking | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sail out | past | the men | the vicks | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from vick=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the Vikings the fjords of the Scandinavian coast and sea kings | brave mariners | 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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