Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 28
They prepared provisions for a voyage of many days.
Who acts: adventures · What happens: prepare, voyage · To what, where: provisions, many days
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 (adventures), 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 prepared | nsubj |
| 2 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prepared | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 voyage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voyage | det |
| 6 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prepared | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 voyage | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | adventures = adventure | provisions | for a voyage of many days | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent provision=Product for voyage=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | voyage | many days | nom voyage «act 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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