Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 53
It is said that when Moi-keha came back to the Hawaiian Islands he visited all along the island coasts until he came to Kauai.
Who acts: Moi · What happens: say, come back, visit, come · To what, where: cover, Hawaiian Islands, Kauai · 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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 visited | mark |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 6 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 keha | punct |
| 8 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Moi | dep |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 visited | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Islands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Islands | det |
| 13 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Islands | compound |
| 14 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 visited | nsubj |
| 16 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 visited | advmod |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 coasts | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coasts | det |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coasts | compound |
| 21 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 visited | obl |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 visited | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Kauai | case |
| 26 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | cover | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come back | past | Moi | the Hawaiian Islands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | visit | past | Moi | along the island coasts; all property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Moi | Kauai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kauai=Initial_Location |
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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