Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 61
There was nothing attractive, and the wealth-loving Spaniard marked the islands on his chart and never visited them again.
Who acts: nothing, loving Spaniard, Gaetano · What happens: be, mark, not visit, chart · To what, where: islands, chart
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 (nothing, loving Spaniard, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nothing | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 marked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 marked | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Spaniard | det |
| 8 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loving | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wealth | punct |
| 10 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Spaniard | amod |
| 11 | Spaniard | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 marked | nsubj |
| 12 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 islands | det |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 marked | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 chart | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 chart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | chart | chart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marked | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 visited | cc |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 visited | advmod |
| 20 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 marked | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 visited | obj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 visited | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mark | past | the loving Spaniard | the islands | Gaetano's chart | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent island=Theme on chart=Destination | |||
| 3 | not visit | past | the loving Spaniard not said here | islands = island | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | chart | Gaetano | nom chart «communication 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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