Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 32
They called their vikings—Ka-poe-holo-kahiki, The People Sailing to Tahiti.
Who acts: groups, Ka, People · What happens: call, kahiki, sail · To what, where: vikings, Tahiti · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Ka, People), 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 | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 vikings | nmod:poss |
| 4 | vikings | viking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | obj |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 kahiki | punct |
| 6 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 kahiki | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ka | punct |
| 8 | poe | poe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kahiki | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 poe | punct |
| 10 | holo | holo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kahiki | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 kahiki | punct |
| 12 | kahiki | kahiki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 People | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 People | det |
| 15 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 kahiki | appos |
| 16 | Sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 People | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Tahiti | case |
| 18 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sailing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | groups = group | groups's vikings | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent viking=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | kahiki | Ka | the People appos | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sail | gerund | the People not said here | Tahiti | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to tahiti=Trajectory |
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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