Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 19
From well-known localities hundreds of fishermen gather spoil for the sustenance of life for themselves and their friends.
Who acts: hundreds · What happens: know, gather · To what, where: spoil, known localities
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 5 localities | case |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 known | advmod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 well | punct |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 localities | amod |
| 5 | localities | locality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gather | obl |
| 6 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gather | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fishermen | case |
| 8 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hundreds | nmod |
| 9 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gather | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sustenance | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sustenance | det |
| 13 | sustenance | sustenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gather | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sustenance | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 themselves | case |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 gather | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 friends | cc |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 themselves | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | gather | present | hundreds of fishermen | spoil | known localities | for the sustenance of life; for hundreds = hundred | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme from locality=Source for sustenance=Asset |
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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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