Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 31

We are not told that they had any one with them who had already been to Tahiti.

Who acts: adventures, one · What happens: not tell, have, be · To what, where: We, one · 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 (adventures, one), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl
14	already	already	ADV	_	17 Tahiti	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 Tahiti	cop
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Tahiti	case
17	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present · passive		We		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	adventures = adventure	any one	with routes = route	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	have	past	any one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle			to Tahiti	tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 31