Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 57
Paao and his friends launched their canoes as fast as possible, placing in them their families and such provisions as were at hand.
Who acts: Paao · What happens: launch, place, be · To what, where: canoes, families
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 (Paao), 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 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 launched | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 friends | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Paao | conj |
| 5 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 launched | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 fast | advmod |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 launched | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 possible | mark |
| 11 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fast | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placing | punct |
| 13 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 launched | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 placing | obl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 families | nmod:poss |
| 17 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 placing | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 provisions | cc |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 provisions | amod |
| 20 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 families | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hand | cop |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | past | Paao and Paao's friends | friends's canoes | fast property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | gerund | Paao and Paao's friends not said here | canoes's families and such provisions | in canoes = canoe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent family=Theme in they=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | as hand | tree rules |
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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