Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 68
Two great fish aided the fugitives.
Who acts: Two great fish · What happens: aid · To what, where: fugitives
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 (Two great fish), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 fish | nummod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 aided | nsubj |
| 4 | aided | aid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fugitives | det |
| 6 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 aided | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | past | Two great fish | the fugitives | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fugitive=Beneficiary |
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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