Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 151
Some time during the fifth or sixth centuries two Polynesian brothers, sons of Kii, came to the Hawaiian group with a number of followers.
Who acts: time · What happens: come · To what, where: Hawaiian group
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 (time), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 3 | during | during | ADP | _ | 8 centuries | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 centuries | det |
| 5 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 centuries | amod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 sixth | cc |
| 7 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fifth | conj |
| 8 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 time | nmod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 brothers | nummod |
| 10 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brothers | amod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 centuries | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sons | punct |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brothers | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kii | case |
| 15 | Kii | Kii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sons | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 group | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 group | det |
| 20 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 group | compound |
| 21 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 number | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 number | det |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 followers | case |
| 26 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 number | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | some time during the fifth centuries | the Hawaiian group | with a number of followers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to group=Initial_Location |
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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