Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 15
Moi-keha and Olopana gathered a strong band of brave retainers and, bidding farewell to Oahu, as their ancestors had done before them, sailed toward the South.
Who acts: Moi, ancestors · What happens: gather, bid, do, sail · To what, where: strong band, Oahu, South
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 (Moi, ancestors), 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 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 keha | punct |
| 3 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Moi | dep |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Olopana | cc |
| 5 | Olopana | Olopana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Moi | conj |
| 6 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 band | det |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 band | amod |
| 9 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 retainers | case |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 retainers | amod |
| 12 | retainers | retainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 band | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bidding | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bidding | punct |
| 15 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gathered | conj |
| 16 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 15 bidding | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Oahu | case |
| 18 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bidding | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 done | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 gathered | conj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sailed | punct |
| 28 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gathered | conj |
| 29 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 31 South | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 South | det |
| 31 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sailed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | Moi and Olopana | a strong band of brave retainers | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bid | gerund | Moi and Olopana not said here | Oahu | farewell property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | retainers's ancestors | before retainers = retainer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sail | past | Moi and Olopana not said here | the South | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward south=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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