Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 41
The captain of the ship carried a long sword which became renowned throughout the islands as “the wonderful iron knife.”
Who acts: captain · What happens: carry, renown · To what, where: long sword
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ship | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 captain | nmod |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sword | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sword | amod |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 renowned | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 renowned | aux:pass |
| 12 | renowned | renown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sword | acl:relcl |
| 13 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 15 islands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 islands | det |
| 15 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 renowned | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 knife | case |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 knife | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knife | det |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knife | amod |
| 20 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knife | compound |
| 21 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 renowned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the captain of the ship | a long sword | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | renown | past · passive | a long sword | throughout the islands | as the wonderful iron knife | 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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