Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 175
The contest required the men to go around the mountain which formed the larger part of the Island of Tahiti, usually a two days’ journey, with allowance for a few hours’ rest along the way.
Who acts: contest, mountain, two days · What happens: require, go, form, journey · To what, where: men, mountain, larger part
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 (contest, mountain, two days), 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 contest | det |
| 2 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 required | nsubj |
| 3 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 required | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 required | xcomp |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 mountain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 formed | nsubj |
| 12 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 14 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 formed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Island | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Island | det |
| 18 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Tahiti | case |
| 20 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Island | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 journey | punct |
| 22 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 27 journey | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 days | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 days | nummod |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 journey | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 25 days | case |
| 27 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 required | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 allowance | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 allowance | case |
| 30 | allowance | allowance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 journey | nmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 rest | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 hours | det |
| 33 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hours | amod |
| 34 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rest | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 34 hours | case |
| 36 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 allowance | nmod |
| 37 | along | along | ADP | _ | 39 way | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 way | det |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 required | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | past | the contest | the men | along the way; a two days's journey with allowance for a few hours's rest obl | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the contest not said here | the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | form | past | the mountain | the larger part of the Island of Tahiti | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | a two days | with allowance for a few hours's rest | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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