Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 43
Two of the companions of Moi-keha on this return voyage became famous in the annals of Hawaii.
Who acts: return voyage · What happens: become · To what, where: Two
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 (return voyage), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 companions | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 companions | det |
| 4 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Two | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Moi | case |
| 6 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 companions | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 keha | punct |
| 8 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Moi | dep |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 voyage | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 voyage | det |
| 11 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 voyage | compound |
| 12 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 keha | parataxis |
| 14 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 annals | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 annals | det |
| 17 | annals | annal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 famous | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Hawaii | case |
| 19 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 annals | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Two | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | this return voyage | famous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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