Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 110
This chart, and the story of Lord Anson’s voyage, were almost certainly known by Captain Cook, who made three voyages through the Pacific.
Who acts: Captain, story · What happens: know, make, voyage · To what, where: chart, three voyages, Pacific
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 (Captain, story), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 chart | det |
| 2 | chart | chart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 voyage | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 voyage | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lord | case |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 9 | Anson | Anson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lord | flat |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 story | case |
| 11 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chart | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 chart | punct |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 certainly | advmod |
| 15 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 16 known | advmod |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Captain | case |
| 18 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obl |
| 19 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Captain | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Captain | acl:relcl |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 voyages | nummod |
| 24 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 Pacific | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Pacific | det |
| 27 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | Captain | this chart and the story of Lord's voyage | certainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | past | Captain | three voyages | the Pacific | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Product | |||
| 3 | voyage | the story of Lord | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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