Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 81
After a time, when the other boats were almost lost to sight, he launched his little canoe, and with his companion, paddled out into the ocean.
Who acts: Moi · What happens: lose, launch, paddle out · To what, where: other boats, little canoe, ocean
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 launched | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 lost | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boats | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boats | amod |
| 8 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux:pass |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 lost | advmod |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 time | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 launched | nsubj |
| 16 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 canoe | amod |
| 19 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 launched | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 paddled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 paddled | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 companion | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 companion | nmod:poss |
| 24 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 paddled | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 companion | punct |
| 26 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 launched | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 paddled | compound:prt |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 ocean | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ocean | det |
| 30 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 paddled | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | the other boats | to sight; almost property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | launch | past | Moi | Moi's little canoe | time | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | |||
| 3 | paddle out | participle | Moi not said here | the ocean | with Moi's companion | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into ocean=Trajectory |
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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