Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 79
At the given signal the canoes sped on this journey, but Moi-keha lingered.
Who acts: canoes · What happens: give, speed, linger · To what, where: given signal, Moi
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 signal | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 signal | det |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 signal | amod |
| 4 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sped | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 canoes | det |
| 6 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sped | nsubj |
| 7 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 journey | det |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lingered | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 lingered | cc |
| 13 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lingered | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Moi | punct |
| 15 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 lingered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sped | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | speed | past | the canoes | the given signal | on this journey | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at signal=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | linger | participle · passive | Moi | tree rules |
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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