Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 36
Some of the legends say that they went away with a fleet of five large canoes.
Who acts: Some, legends · What happens: say, go away · 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 (Some, legends), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 say | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 legends | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 legends | det |
| 4 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 fleet | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fleet | det |
| 12 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 canoes | case |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 canoes | nummod |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 canoes | amod |
| 16 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fleet | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Some of the legends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go away | past | legends = legend | with a fleet of five large canoes; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with fleet=Beneficiary |
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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