Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 31
They might ultimately sail eastward to Tahiti or to the Marquesas Islands, but they started toward the home of their ancestors, westward.
Who acts: groups · What happens: sail, start · To what, where: eastward, Tahiti
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groups), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sail | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sail | aux |
| 3 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 4 sail | advmod |
| 4 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | eastward | eastward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sail | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Tahiti | case |
| 7 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sail | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 Islands | cc |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Islands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Islands | det |
| 11 | Marquesas | Marquesas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Islands | compound |
| 12 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Tahiti | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sail | conj |
| 17 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 home | det |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 started | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ancestors | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 home | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 westward | punct |
| 24 | westward | westward | ADV | _ | 16 started | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | might | groups = group | eastward | Tahiti or the Marquesas Islands | ultimately property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eastward=Theme to tahiti=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | start | past | groups = group | toward the home of groups's ancestors; westward property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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