Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 4

We have the additional fact that in Hawaiian legends the place to which Hawaiian Vikings frequently sailed for centuries was usually Kahiki or Tahiti, the old home of the family of ruling chiefs.

Who acts: We, Hawaiian Vikings, place · What happens: have, sail, be, rule · To what, where: additional fact, place, Kahiki

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 (We, Hawaiian Vikings, place), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fact	det
4	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fact	amod
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 legends	mark
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 legends	case
8	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 legends	amod
9	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fact	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Kahiki	nsubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sailed	obl
14	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Vikings	compound
15	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 sailed	nsubj
16	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	17 sailed	advmod
17	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 place	acl:relcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 centuries	case
19	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sailed	obl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Kahiki	cop
21	usually	usually	ADV	_	22 Kahiki	advmod
22	Kahiki	Kahiki	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 legends	nmod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 Tahiti	cc
24	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Kahiki	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 home	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 home	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 home	amod
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Kahiki	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 family	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 family	det
31	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 home	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 chiefs	case
33	ruling	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 chiefs	amod
34	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 family	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	We	the additional fact in Hawaiian legends				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient
2	sail	past	Hawaiian Vikings		the place	century	frequently property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to which=Trajectory
3	is a	past	the place	Kahiki or Tahiti			Tahiti conj; the old home of the family of ruling chiefs appos; usually property	tree rules
4	rule	gerund						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 4

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 4