Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 141
Thus they met the wondering natives who hastened along the beach to the spot where the boats must land.
Who acts: people, wondering natives, boats · What happens: meet, hasten, land · To what, where: wondering natives, spot
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, wondering natives, boats), 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 met | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 natives | det |
| 5 | wondering | wondering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 natives | amod |
| 6 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 met | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 hastened | nsubj |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 natives | acl:relcl |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 beach | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beach | det |
| 11 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 spot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spot | det |
| 14 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 land | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boats | det |
| 17 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 land | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 land | aux |
| 19 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 spot | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | people | the wondering natives | thus property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent native=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | hasten | past | the wondering natives | the spot | along the beach | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | |||
| 3 | land | must | the boats | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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