Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 51
He has searched the forests of the sharp-peaked mountain and has fashioned a boat, the Mano-nui (great shark), and soon expects to come to Papeete with a royal fleet to do honour to the king, his father.”
Who acts: Nanaulu, boat · What happens: search, peak, be, expect, come, do · To what, where: forests, Papeete
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 (Nanaulu, boat), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | aux |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forests | det |
| 5 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 searched | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 8 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 peaked | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sharp | punct |
| 10 | peaked | peak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 mountain | amod |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forests | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fashioned | cc |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fashioned | cop |
| 14 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 searched | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boat | det |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fashioned | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mano | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mano | det |
| 19 | Mano | Mano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 searched | parataxis |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 nui | punct |
| 21 | nui | nui | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 Mano | conj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 shark | punct |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shark | amod |
| 24 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nui | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 shark | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 expects | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 expects | cc |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 expects | advmod |
| 29 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 come | mark |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 expects | xcomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Papeete | case |
| 33 | Papeete | Papeete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 fleet | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 fleet | det |
| 36 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fleet | amod |
| 37 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 do | mark |
| 39 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 come | advcl |
| 40 | honour | honour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 do | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 king | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 king | det |
| 43 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 honour | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 father | punct |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 father | nmod:poss |
| 46 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 king | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | present · perfect | Nanaulu | the forests of the peaked mountain | the Mano parataxis | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Location | |||
| 2 | peak | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | a boat | fashioned property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | expect | present | Nanaulu not said here | soon property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nanaulu not said here | Papeete | with a royal fleet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to papeete=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | Nanaulu not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | honour | infinitive | Nanaulu not said here | to the king and Nanaulu's father | tree rules |
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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