Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 12
They wrestled and fought with their companions and listened to the tales of the sea rovers of the Pacific.
Who acts: boys, sea rovers · What happens: wrestle, fight, listen, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, sea rovers), 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 wrestled | nsubj |
| 2 | wrestled | wrestle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fought | cc |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrestled | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 companions | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fought | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 listened | cc |
| 9 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrestled | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 tales | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tales | det |
| 12 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 listened | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rovers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rovers | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rovers | compound |
| 16 | rovers | rover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tales | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Pacific | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Pacific | det |
| 19 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 rovers | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrestled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrestle | past | boys = boy | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fight | past | boys = boy not said here | with boys's companions | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with companion=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | listen | past | boys = boy not said here | to the tales of the sea rovers of the Pacific | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell | the sea rovers of the Pacific | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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