Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 58
Then as the light of the morning rose over sea and shore, with his canoes flying the royal banners of a high chief, he drew near.
Who acts: canoes, Kauai · What happens: rise, fly, draw, light · To what, where: sea, royal banners, morning
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 (canoes, Kauai), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 rose | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 light | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 light | det |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 light | nmod |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shore | cc |
| 12 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sea | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 canoes | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 canoes | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rose | obl |
| 17 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 canoes | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 banners | det |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 banners | amod |
| 20 | banners | banner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flying | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 chief | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 chief | det |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chief | amod |
| 24 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 banners | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drew | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 drew | nsubj |
| 27 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 28 | near | near | ADV | _ | 27 drew | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | sea and shore | then | as the light of the morning; with Kauai's canoes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Location | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | Kauai's canoes not said here | the royal banners of a high chief | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location banner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Kauai | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | light | the morning | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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