Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 68
Meanwhile, the missionaries at Hilo, a hundred and fifty miles from Kona, heard that Kapiolani had started on this strenuous undertaking.
Who acts: missionaries · What happens: hear, start · To what, where: Kapiolani, strenuous undertaking · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (missionaries), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 16 heard | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 missionaries | det |
| 4 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Hilo | case |
| 6 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 missionaries | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 miles | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 miles | nummod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fifty | cc |
| 11 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hundred | conj |
| 12 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 missionaries | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Kona | case |
| 14 | Kona | Kona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 miles | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 missionaries | punct |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 started | mark |
| 18 | Kapiolani | Kapiolani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 started | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 started | aux |
| 20 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 heard | ccomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 undertaking | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 undertaking | det |
| 23 | strenuous | strenuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 undertaking | amod |
| 24 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 started | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the missionaries at Hilo and hundred miles from Kona | meanwhile property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | start | past · perfect · passive | Kapiolani | this strenuous undertaking | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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