Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 127
The steersmen unconsciously changed the course of the boats toward the blue haze of land outlined by the dawn.
Who acts: steersmen, land · What happens: change, outline, haze · To what, where: course, land
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steersmen, land), 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 steersmen | det |
| 2 | steersmen | steersman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | unconsciously | unconsciously | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 course | det |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 boats | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boats | det |
| 9 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 course | nmod |
| 10 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 13 haze | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 haze | det |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 haze | amod |
| 13 | haze | haze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boats | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 haze | nmod |
| 16 | outlined | outline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 land | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 dawn | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dawn | det |
| 19 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 outlined | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the steersmen | the course of the boats toward the blue haze of land | unconsciously property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient | |||
| 2 | outline speech: other | participle | land not said here | dawn | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | haze | land | nom haze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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