Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 109
In 1743, Lord Anson, of the British ship Centurion, captured a Spanish ship near the Philippine Islands, and found a chart locating a group of islands in the North Pacific—the same group that Gaetano discovered in 1555.
Who acts: Lord, chart, Gaetano · What happens: capture, find, locate, discover · To what, where: Spanish ship, 1743, chart, group, same group, 1555
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 (Lord, chart, Gaetano), 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 1743 | case |
| 2 | 1743 | 1743 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 captured | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1743 | punct |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 captured | nsubj |
| 5 | Anson | Anson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lord | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ship | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 9 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ship | amod |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Lord | appos |
| 11 | Centurion | Centurion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ship | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lord | punct |
| 13 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ship | det |
| 15 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ship | amod |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 captured | obj |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 Islands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Islands | det |
| 19 | Philippine | philippine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Islands | amod |
| 20 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 ship | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 found | cc |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 captured | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 chart | det |
| 25 | chart | chart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obj |
| 26 | locating | locate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 chart | acl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 group | det |
| 28 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 locating | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 islands | case |
| 30 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 group | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Pacific | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Pacific | det |
| 33 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Pacific | compound |
| 34 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 islands | nmod |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 group | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 group | det |
| 37 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 group | amod |
| 38 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chart | appos |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 discovered | obj |
| 40 | Gaetano | Gaetano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 discovered | nsubj |
| 41 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 group | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 1555 | case |
| 43 | 1555 | 1555 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 discovered | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past | Lord | a Spanish ship | 1743 | near the Philippine Islands | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||
| 2 | find | past | Lord not said here | a chart | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chart=Topic | ||||
| 3 | locate | gerund | a chart not said here | a group of islands in the North Pacific | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | discover | past | Gaetano | the same group | 1555 | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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