Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 55
The area of vision bounded by the horizon was the world in which the people lived.
Who acts: area, people · What happens: bound, be, live · To what, where: area, world
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 (area, people), 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 | 2 area | det |
| 2 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 world | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 vision | case |
| 4 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 area | nmod |
| 5 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 area | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 horizon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horizon | det |
| 8 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bounded | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 world | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 world | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 world | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | participle | the area of vision not said here | by the horizon | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by horizon=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the area of vision | the world | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the people | the world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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