Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 205
The descendants of Nanaulu ruled the northern islands until a few years after Captain Cook discovered the Hawaiian group and called it “The Sandwich Islands.”
Who acts: descendants · What happens: rule, discover, call · To what, where: northern islands, Hawaiian group, race · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (descendants), 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 descendants | det |
| 2 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ruled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Nanaulu | case |
| 4 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 descendants | nmod |
| 5 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 islands | det |
| 7 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 islands | amod |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ruled | obj |
| 9 | until | until | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 years | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ruled | obl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 Cook | case |
| 14 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Cook | compound |
| 15 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 discovered | obl |
| 16 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ruled | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 group | det |
| 18 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 group | compound |
| 19 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 discovered | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 discovered | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | obj |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Islands | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Islands | det |
| 25 | Sandwich | Sandwich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Islands | compound |
| 26 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 called | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ruled | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | the descendants of Nanaulu | the northern islands | year | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | |||
| 2 | discover | past | the Hawaiian group | after Captain Cook | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Topic | ||||
| 3 | call | past | race | the Sandwich Islands obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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