Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 43
Another trace is found in Madagascar, while the great body of the storm-tossed people took possession of the middle and southeastern islands of the Pacific.
Who acts: great body · What happens: find, toss, take, possess · To what, where: trace, Madagascar, possession, middle
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 (great body), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 trace | det |
| 2 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux:pass |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Madagascar | case |
| 6 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 took | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 body | amod |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 14 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tossed | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 storm | punct |
| 16 | tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 body | nmod |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 19 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 middle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 middle | det |
| 22 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 possession | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 islands | cc |
| 24 | southeastern | southeastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 islands | amod |
| 25 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 possession | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Pacific | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Pacific | det |
| 28 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 islands | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | another trace | Madagascar | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | toss | participle | storm compound | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the great body of the tossed people | possession of the middle and southeastern islands of the Pacific | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 4 | possess | the middle | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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