Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 165
He levied upon any canoe attracting his fancy.
Who acts: Hawaii · What happens: levy, attract, fancy · To what, where: fancy
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 (Hawaii), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 levied | nsubj |
| 2 | levied | levy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 canoe | case |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 canoe | det |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 levied | obl |
| 6 | attracting | attract | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 levied | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attracting | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 levied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | levy | past | Hawaii | upon any canoe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attract | gerund | Hawaii not said here | Hawaii's fancy | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fancy | Hawaii | nom fancy «cognition 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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