Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 101
He could prosecute his investigations concerning harbours and resources without danger to himself or to his men.
Who acts: Captain · What happens: prosecute, investigate · To what, where: investigations
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prosecute | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 prosecute | aux |
| 3 | prosecute | prosecute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 investigations | nmod:poss |
| 5 | investigations | investigation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 prosecute | obj |
| 6 | concerning | concerning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 harbours | amod |
| 7 | harbours | harbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 prosecute | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 resources | cc |
| 9 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 harbours | conj |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 danger | case |
| 11 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prosecute | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 danger | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 men | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 men | nmod:poss |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 himself | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prosecute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prosecute | could | Captain | Captain's investigations | without danger to Captain; concerning harbours and resources obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | investigate | Captain | nom investigation «cognition 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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