Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 60
1796, says that Gaetano saw these islands “with their naked savages, cocoanuts and other fruits, but no gold or silver.”
Who acts: 1796, Gaetano · What happens: say, see · To what, where: islands · 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 (1796, 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 | 1796 | 1796 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 1796 | punct |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 5 | Gaetano | Gaetano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 islands | det |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 savages | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 savages | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 savages | nmod:poss |
| 12 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 savages | amod |
| 13 | savages | savage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 islands | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cocoanuts | punct |
| 15 | cocoanuts | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 savages | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fruits | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fruits | amod |
| 18 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 savages | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gold | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 gold | cc |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 gold | det |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | conj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 silver | cc |
| 24 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gold | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | 1796 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Gaetano | this islands | with islands's naked savages and cocoanuts and other fruits; no gold or silver conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
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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