Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 48
Then lastly came the canoe voyagers—the rovings of the vikings of the Pacific which in New Zealand meant a new peopling of the land of the “long white cloud,” and to the Hawaiians and Tahitians and other islands almost two centuries of adventurous sea roving.
Who acts: lastly, rovings, Hawaiians, adventurous sea · What happens: come, mean, century, rove · To what, where: canoe voyagers, new peopling, vikings
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 (lastly, rovings, Hawaiians, adventurous sea), 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 | 2 lastly | advmod |
| 2 | lastly | lastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 voyagers | det |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 voyagers | compound |
| 6 | voyagers | voyager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rovings | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rovings | det |
| 9 | rovings | roving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 voyagers | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 vikings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vikings | det |
| 12 | vikings | viking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rovings | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Pacific | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Pacific | det |
| 15 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 vikings | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 meant | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Zealand | case |
| 18 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Zealand | flat |
| 19 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 meant | obl |
| 20 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rovings | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 peopling | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 peopling | amod |
| 23 | peopling | peopling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meant | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 peopling | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 cloud | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cloud | det |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 cloud | punct |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cloud | amod |
| 31 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cloud | amod |
| 32 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 land | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cloud | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 peopling | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 centuries | cc |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Hawaiians | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Hawaiians | det |
| 38 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 46 centuries | nsubj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Tahitians | cc |
| 40 | Tahitians | Tahitian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 Hawaiians | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 islands | cc |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 islands | amod |
| 43 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 Hawaiians | conj |
| 44 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 45 two | advmod |
| 45 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 centuries | nummod |
| 46 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 meant | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 sea | case |
| 48 | adventurous | adventurous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 sea | amod |
| 49 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 centuries | nmod |
| 50 | roving | rove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 49 sea | acl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | lastly | the canoe voyagers and the rovings of the vikings of the Pacific | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voyager=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | the rovings of the vikings of the Pacific | a new peopling of the land of the long white cloud | in New Zealand | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot peopling=Theme in zealand=Attribute | |||
| 3 | century | the Hawaiians and Tahitians and other islands | of adventurous sea | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rove | gerund | adventurous sea not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rove | the vikings of the Pacific | nom roving «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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