Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 13
Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779 in a fight that started over a stolen boat.
Who acts: fight · What happens: kill, start, steal · To what, where: Cook, Hawaii, stolen boat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | aux:pass |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Hawaii | case |
| 5 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1779 | case |
| 7 | 1779 | 1779 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 killed | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fight | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fight | det |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 started | nsubj |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fight | acl:relcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 boat | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boat | det |
| 15 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 boat | amod |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | Cook | Hawaii | in 1779; in a fight | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | start | past | a fight | a stolen boat | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:028-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific.lesson:13.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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