Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 52
Thus canoes were prepared capable of carrying thirty to sixty persons.
Who acts: Thus canoes · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: thirty persons
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 (Thus canoes), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 canoes | amod |
| 2 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 capable | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 capable | cop |
| 4 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 capable | amod |
| 5 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 carrying | mark |
| 7 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 capable | advcl |
| 8 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 persons | nummod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sixty | case |
| 10 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thirty | nmod |
| 11 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carrying | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 capable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Thus canoes | capable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Thus canoes not said here | thirty persons | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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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