Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 10
In 1513 he launched his little ship, intending to find the oriental riches, if possible.
Who acts: ocean · What happens: launch, intend, find · To what, where: little ship, 1513, oriental riches
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ocean), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1513 | case |
| 2 | 1513 | 1513 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 launched | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 launched | nsubj |
| 4 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ship | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ship | amod |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 launched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 intending | punct |
| 9 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 launched | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 intending | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 riches | det |
| 13 | oriental | oriental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 riches | amod |
| 14 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 possible | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 possible | mark |
| 17 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 find | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | past | ocean | ocean's little ship | 1513 | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ship=Theme in 1513=Destination | |||
| 2 | intend | gerund | ocean not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | ocean not said here | the oriental riches | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Topic |
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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