Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 202
So the sons of Kii sailed away toward the west to find the home from which their ancestors had come to found the dynasty of Tahitian kings which held rule over Tahiti until the white man controlled the beautiful islands of the Pacific.
Who acts: sons, ancestors, Tahitian kings, white man · What happens: sail away, find, come, found, hold, control · To what, where: west, home, dynasty, rule, Tahiti, beautiful islands
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 (sons, ancestors, Tahitian kings, white man), 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 | _ | 6 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sons | det |
| 3 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kii | case |
| 5 | Kii | Kii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sons | nmod |
| 6 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 sailed | advmod |
| 8 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 10 west | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 west | det |
| 10 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sailed | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sailed | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 come | obl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 home | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 found | mark |
| 22 | found | found | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dynasty | det |
| 24 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 kings | case |
| 26 | Tahitian | Tahitian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 kings | compound |
| 27 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 dynasty | nmod |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 held | nsubj |
| 29 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 kings | acl:relcl |
| 30 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 held | obj |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 Tahiti | case |
| 32 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 rule | nmod |
| 33 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 37 controlled | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 35 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 man | amod |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 controlled | nsubj |
| 37 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 held | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 islands | det |
| 39 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 islands | amod |
| 40 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 controlled | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Pacific | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Pacific | det |
| 43 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 islands | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail away | past | the sons of Kii | the west | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward west=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the sons of Kii not said here | the home | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | sons's ancestors | the home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | found | to-infinitive | sons's ancestors not said here | the dynasty of Tahitian kings | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dynasty=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hold | past | Tahitian kings | rule | Tahiti | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rule=Theme over tahiti=Location | |||
| 6 | control | past | the white man | the beautiful islands of the Pacific | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=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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