Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 54
A journey to or from any of the Polynesian islands meant passing out of one world into another.
Who acts: journey · What happens: mean, pass out · To what, where: one world, another
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 (journey), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 journey | det |
| 2 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 any | case |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 any | cc |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 any | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 meant | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 islands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islands | det |
| 9 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 islands | amod |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 any | nmod |
| 11 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 meant | xcomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 world | nummod |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passing | obl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 another | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 passing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | a journey | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pass out not said to happen | gerund | a journey not said here | one world | another | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent world=Theme |
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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