Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 41
The fierce Malay tribes descended upon them and scattered them in all directions over the seas.
Who acts: fierce Malay tribes · What happens: descend, scatter · To what, where: fierce Malay tribes, Polynesians, directions
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 (fierce Malay tribes), 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 | 4 tribes | det |
| 2 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tribes | amod |
| 3 | Malay | malay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tribes | amod |
| 4 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scattered | nsubj |
| 5 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tribes | acl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 descended | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 descended | cc |
| 9 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scattered | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 directions | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 directions | det |
| 13 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scattered | obl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 seas | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 seas | det |
| 16 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scattered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | participle | the fierce Malay tribes not said here | upon tribes = tribe | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scatter | past | the fierce Malay tribes | Polynesians = polynesian | all directions | over the seas | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in direction=Destination |
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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