Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 35
Olopana and his wife, Luu-kia, occupied one of the large ocean-going canoes and Moi-keha with Laa sailed in another.
Who acts: Olopana, Moi · What happens: occupy, go, sail · To what, where: one, another
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 (Olopana, Moi), 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 | Olopana | Olopana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 occupied | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wife | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Olopana | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Luu | punct |
| 6 | Luu | Luu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Olopana | parataxis |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 kia | punct |
| 8 | kia | Kia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Luu | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Olopana | punct |
| 10 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 occupied | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 canoes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 canoes | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 canoes | amod |
| 15 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ocean | punct |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 canoes | amod |
| 18 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sailed | cc |
| 20 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sailed | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 keha | punct |
| 22 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 Moi | dep |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Laa | case |
| 24 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Moi | nmod |
| 25 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 occupied | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 another | case |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 sailed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past | Olopana Luu and kia and Olopana's wife | one of the large going canoes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | ocean compound | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sail | past | Moi with Laa | another | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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