Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 77
The fine large canoes of the various chiefs with their strong crews of oarsmen were drawn up in line.
What happens: draw up · To what, where: fine large canoes, line
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 canoes | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 canoes | amod |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 canoes | amod |
| 4 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chiefs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 7 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chiefs | amod |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 canoes | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 crews | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 crews | nmod:poss |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 crews | amod |
| 12 | crews | crew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chiefs | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 oarsmen | case |
| 14 | oarsmen | oarsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crews | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 drawn | aux:pass |
| 16 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 drawn | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 line | case |
| 19 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drawn | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past · passive | the fine large canoes of the various chiefs with chiefs's strong crews of oarsmen | line | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in line=Destination |
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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