Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 201
So from Tahiti, in the long ago, a voyage of many days to many lands, through many strange experiences, was undertaken by brave men and women in a small fleet of the larger kind of Polynesian boats.
Who acts: brave men · What happens: undertake, voyage · To what, where: Tahiti, many days
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 (brave men), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 25 undertaken | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Tahiti | case |
| 3 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 undertaken | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 voyage | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 voyage | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voyage | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | advmod |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 voyage | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ago | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voyage | det |
| 11 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tahiti | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 voyage | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 lands | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lands | amod |
| 17 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 days | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 experiences | punct |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 experiences | case |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 experiences | amod |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 experiences | amod |
| 22 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lands | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tahiti | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 undertaken | aux:pass |
| 25 | undertaken | undertake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 men | case |
| 27 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 men | amod |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 undertaken | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 women | cc |
| 30 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 men | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 fleet | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fleet | det |
| 33 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fleet | amod |
| 34 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 undertaken | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 kind | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 kind | det |
| 37 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 kind | amod |
| 38 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fleet | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 boats | case |
| 40 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 boats | amod |
| 41 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 kind | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 undertaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | past · passive | brave men and women | Tahiti | in a small fleet of the larger kind of Polynesian boats | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | voyage | many days to many lands and many strange experiences | nom voyage «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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