Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 19
The company from Kauai stopped at Waipio Valley, on the island of Hawaii, one of the most beautiful and inaccessible valleys of the whole Hawaiian group.
Who acts: company · What happens: stop · To what, where: Waipio Valley
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 (company), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 company | det |
| 2 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Kauai | case |
| 4 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 company | nmod |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Valley | case |
| 7 | Waipio | Waipio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Valley | compound |
| 8 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 island | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Hawaii | case |
| 14 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 island | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 island | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 valleys | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 valleys | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 valleys | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 inaccessible | cc |
| 22 | inaccessible | inaccessible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beautiful | conj |
| 23 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 group | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 group | det |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 group | amod |
| 27 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 group | compound |
| 28 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 valleys | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the company from Kauai | Waipio Valley | on the island of Hawaii | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at valley=Location |
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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