Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 86
He let loose these servants just behind the sail and they pushed the canoe forward with incredible rapidity.
Who acts: mao, servants · What happens: let, push · To what, where: loose servants, sail, canoe
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 (mao, servants), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 servants | amod |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 servants | det |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 let | obj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 sail | advmod |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 sail | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sail | det |
| 9 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pushed | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pushed | nsubj |
| 12 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 canoe | det |
| 14 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pushed | obj |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 pushed | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 rapidity | case |
| 17 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rapidity | amod |
| 18 | rapidity | rapidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pushed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | mao | this loose servants | the sail | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | |||
| 2 | push | past | servants = servant | the canoe | with incredible rapidity; forward property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme |
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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