Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 54
Whenever he landed he seems to have given prominence to one after another of the companions of his long voyage.
Who acts: Moi · What happens: land, seem, give, voyage · To what, where: prominence, one
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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 landed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seems | nsubj |
| 5 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 landed | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 given | mark |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 given | aux |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seems | xcomp |
| 9 | prominence | prominence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 given | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 another | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 companions | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 companions | det |
| 16 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 another | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 voyage | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voyage | amod |
| 20 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 companions | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | Moi | whenever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | Moi | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive · perfect | Moi not said here | prominence | one after another of the companions of Moi's long voyage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prominence=Theme to one=Recipient | |||
| 4 | voyage | Moi | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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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