Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 204
The defeated king fled across the channel between the Islands of Hawaii and Maui.
What happens: defeat, flee · To what, where: defeated king, channel
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: 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 king | acl |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 channel | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 channel | det |
| 7 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | obl |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 Islands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Islands | det |
| 10 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 channel | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Hawaii | case |
| 12 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Islands | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Maui | cc |
| 14 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hawaii | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defeat | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | flee | participle | the defeated king not said here | the channel between the Islands of Hawaii and Maui | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across channel=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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