Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 49
They agreed to prepare their large canoes, and go with him, seeking the “Burning-Java,” or Hawaii, somewhere toward the north.
Who acts: friends · What happens: agree, prepare, go, seek · To what, where: large canoes, Burning Java · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (friends), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 prepare | mark |
| 4 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 canoes | amod |
| 7 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prepare | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 go | cc |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeking | punct |
| 14 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 go | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Java | det |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Java | punct |
| 17 | Burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Java | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Burning | punct |
| 19 | Java | java | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seeking | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeking | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 Hawaii | cc |
| 23 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 agreed | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 somewhere | punct |
| 25 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 agreed | advmod |
| 26 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 28 north | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 north | det |
| 28 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 somewhere | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | friends = friend | Hawaii conj; somewhere property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | prepare not said to happen | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | friends's large canoes | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | with Paao | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | seek | gerund | the Burning Java | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent java=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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