Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 58
His warriors, defeated by Lonopele, hastened to the canoes, and shoved out into the deep waters.
Who acts: Lonopele · What happens: defeat, hasten, shove out · To what, where: warriors, canoes, deep waters
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 (Lonopele), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 defeated | punct |
| 4 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Lonopele | case |
| 6 | Lonopele | Lonopele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 defeated | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hastened | punct |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 defeated | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 canoes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 canoes | det |
| 11 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hastened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shoved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shoved | cc |
| 14 | shoved | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 defeated | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 shoved | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 waters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waters | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 waters | amod |
| 19 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shoved | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 defeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defeat | participle · passive | Lonopele | Paao's warriors | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | Lonopele not said here | the canoes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to canoe=Destination | ||||
| 3 | shove out | past | the deep waters | out property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into water=Trajectory |
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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