Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 140
Thus they landed as if their journey had known nothing of starvation and death.
Who acts: people · What happens: land, know, journey · To what, where: journey
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 (people), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 landed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 known | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 known | mark |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 known | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 known | aux |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 landed | ccomp |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 known | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 starvation | case |
| 12 | starvation | starvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 death | cc |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | people | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | people's journey | nothing of starvation death obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | journey | people | nom journey «act 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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