Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 15

Alexander says: “It seems certain that a foreign vessel which was wrecked about this time on the Kona coast of Hawaii must have been one of Saavedra’s missing ships.”

Who acts: Alexander, It, foreign vessel · What happens: say, seem, wreck, be · To what, where: foreign vessel, Kona coast, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alexander, It, foreign vessel), 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	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 seems	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 seems	punct
5	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seems	nsubj
6	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seems	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 one	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vessel	det
10	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 vessel	amod
11	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 one	nsubj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wrecked	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wrecked	aux:pass
14	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 vessel	acl:relcl
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wrecked	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 coast	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 coast	det
20	Kona	Kona	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 coast	compound
21	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wrecked	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Hawaii	case
23	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 coast	nmod
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 one	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 one	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 one	cop
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 certain	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 ships	case
29	Saavedra	Saavedra	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ships	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Saavedra	case
31	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ships	amod
32	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alexander					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	seem in a quote	present	It				certain property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	wreck in a quote	past · passive		a foreign vessel	the Kona coast of Hawaii	time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is a in a quote	must · perfect	a foreign vessel	one			of Saavedra's missing ships	tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 15