Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 47
Idols by Which Captain Cook Was Worshipped Title page Spear Throwing Contest 62 Chiefs in Feather Cloaks and Helmets 88 Landing of Warriors 134 Hawaiian Grass Houses 172 First Leaflet Printed, 1822 184 Title Page of First Hymn Book, 1823 186 First Bible Printing, 1827 188
Who acts: Idols · What happens: house · To what, where: 172 First Leaflet Printed
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Idols), 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 | Idols | idol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Houses | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 Which | case |
| 3 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 Chiefs | obl |
| 4 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cook | compound |
| 5 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Worshipped | compound |
| 6 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Worshipped | compound |
| 7 | Worshipped | Worshipped | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Title | compound |
| 8 | Title | Title | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 page | compound |
| 9 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Spear | compound |
| 10 | Spear | Spear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Throwing | compound |
| 11 | Throwing | Throwing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Contest | compound |
| 12 | Contest | Contest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Chiefs | compound |
| 13 | 62 | 62 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Contest | flat |
| 14 | Chiefs | Chief | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Idols | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Cloaks | case |
| 16 | Feather | Feather | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Cloaks | compound |
| 17 | Cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Idols | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Helmets | cc |
| 19 | Helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Cloaks | conj |
| 20 | 88 | 88 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Landing | nummod |
| 21 | Landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Cloaks | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Warriors | case |
| 23 | Warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Landing | conj |
| 24 | 134 | 134 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 Warriors | flat |
| 25 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Grass | amod |
| 26 | Grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 134 | appos |
| 27 | Houses | house | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | 172 | 172 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 Printed | nummod |
| 29 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 Printed | amod |
| 30 | Leaflet | Leaflet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Printed | compound |
| 31 | Printed | Printed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Houses | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 1822 | punct |
| 33 | 1822 | 1822 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 Houses | parataxis |
| 34 | 184 | 184 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 Page | nummod |
| 35 | Title | Title | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Page | compound |
| 36 | Page | Page | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 1822 | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Book | case |
| 38 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 Book | amod |
| 39 | Hymn | Hymn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Book | compound |
| 40 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Page | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 1823 | punct |
| 42 | 1823 | 1823 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 Page | list |
| 43 | 186 | 186 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 1823 | flat |
| 44 | First | First | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 45 Bible | amod |
| 45 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Printing | compound |
| 46 | Printing | Printing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 1823 | nmod:unmarked |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 1827 | punct |
| 48 | 1827 | 1827 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 1822 | conj |
| 49 | 188 | 188 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 1827 | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | house | present | Idols Contest Chiefs by Idols Contest Chiefs by Idols in Feather Cloaks 88 Landing and Warriors and Helmets in Feather Cloaks 88 Landing and Warriors and Helmets | 172 First Leaflet Printed | 1822 184 Title Page of First Hymn Book parataxis | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location printed=Value |
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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