Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 46
Then they journeyed to the Malay archipelago, residing there many generations until driven out by the Malays.
Who acts: India · What happens: journey, reside, drive out · To what, where: Malay archipelago, many generations
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 (India), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 journeyed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 journeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 archipelago | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 archipelago | det |
| 6 | Malay | Malay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 archipelago | compound |
| 7 | archipelago | archipelago | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 journeyed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 residing | punct |
| 9 | residing | reside | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 journeyed | advcl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 residing | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 generations | amod |
| 12 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 residing | obj |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 driven | mark |
| 14 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 residing | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 driven | compound:prt |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Malays | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Malays | det |
| 18 | Malays | malay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 driven | obl:agent |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | India | the Malay archipelago | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to archipelago=Destination | |||
| 2 | reside | gerund | India not said here | many generations | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme generation=Location | |||
| 3 | drive out | participle | India not said here | the Malays obl:agent | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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