Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 71
As the afternoon of the first day began to cast its long shadows, a large fleet of hundreds of canoes filled the entrance to Papeete Bay.
Who acts: large fleet, rest · What happens: begin, cast, fill, shadow · To what, where: long shadows, entrance, Papeete Bay
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 (large fleet, rest), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 afternoon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 afternoon | det |
| 3 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 afternoon | nmod |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cast | mark |
| 10 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shadows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shadows | amod |
| 13 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cast | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fleet | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fleet | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fleet | amod |
| 17 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hundreds | case |
| 19 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fleet | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 canoes | case |
| 21 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hundreds | nmod |
| 22 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 entrance | det |
| 24 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Bay | case |
| 26 | Papeete | Papeete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Bay | compound |
| 27 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | afternoon | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cast | to-infinitive | rest's long shadows | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product | |||||
| 3 | fill | past | a large fleet of hundreds of canoes | the entrance | Papeete Bay | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent entrance=Patient | |||
| 4 | shadow | rest | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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