Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 13
They learned the routes to the southern and southeastern islands and heard with fired imaginations the descriptions of Tahiti and Samoa.
Who acts: boys · What happens: learn, hear, fire, describe · To what, where: routes, Tahiti
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), 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 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 routes | det |
| 4 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learned | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 islands | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islands | det |
| 7 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 islands | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 southeastern | cc |
| 9 | southeastern | southeastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 southern | conj |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learned | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 learned | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 imaginations | case |
| 14 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 imaginations | amod |
| 15 | imaginations | imagination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heard | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 descriptions | det |
| 17 | descriptions | description | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 imaginations | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Tahiti | case |
| 19 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 descriptions | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Samoa | cc |
| 21 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Tahiti | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | boys = boy | the routes | to the southern islands | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Topic | |||
| 2 | hear | past | boys = boy not said here | with fired imaginations | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | fire | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | describe | Tahiti and Samoa | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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