Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 87
Long before the other chiefs came in sight of the island Moi-keha had found the necklace and had sailed away to Hooipo.
Who acts: other chiefs · What happens: come, find, sail away, sight · To what, where: sight, keha, Hooipo, island
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 (other chiefs), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chiefs | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chiefs | amod |
| 5 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 island | appos |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Moi | punct |
| 14 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 found | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 necklace | det |
| 18 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sailed | cc |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sailed | aux |
| 21 | sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 found | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 sailed | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Hooipo | case |
| 24 | Hooipo | Hooipo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sailed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the other chiefs | sight of the island | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | |||
| 2 | find | past · perfect · passive | keha | the necklace obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme necklace=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | sail away | past · perfect | Hooipo | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hooipo=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sight | the island | nom sight «cognition 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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