Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 124
Canoes were stationed at the point from which the older chiefs had decided that the swimmers must start.
Who acts: swimmers · What happens: station, decide, start · To what, where: Canoes, point, older chiefs
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swimmers), 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 | Canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stationed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stationed | aux:pass |
| 3 | stationed | station | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 point | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 point | det |
| 6 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stationed | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 decided | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chiefs | det |
| 10 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 chiefs | amod |
| 11 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 decided | aux |
| 13 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 point | acl:relcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 start | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 swimmers | det |
| 16 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 start | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 start | aux |
| 18 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 decided | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stationed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | past · passive | Canoes | the point | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at point=Destination | ||||
| 2 | decide | past · perfect · passive | the older chiefs | the point | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | start | must | the swimmers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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