Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 108
He fled to the “Sandwich Islands,” and in November, 1778, sighted the island of Maui, or, as Captain Cook phonetically spelled it, “Mowee.”
Who acts: Captain · What happens: flee, sight, spell · To what, where: Sandwich Islands, island, Captain Cook
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 | 2 fled | nsubj |
| 2 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Islands | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Islands | det |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Islands | punct |
| 6 | Sandwich | Sandwich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Islands | compound |
| 7 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 fled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Islands | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 November | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 November | case |
| 12 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 1778 | punct |
| 14 | 1778 | 1778 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 November | list |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sighted | punct |
| 16 | sighted | sight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fled | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 island | det |
| 18 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sighted | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Maui | case |
| 20 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 island | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spelled | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 spelled | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 or | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 Cook | case |
| 25 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Cook | compound |
| 26 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 spelled | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | phonetically | phonetically | ADV | _ | 28 spelled | advmod |
| 28 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fled | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 spelled | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Mowee | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Mowee | punct |
| 32 | Mowee | Mowee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 spelled | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 Mowee | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Mowee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | Captain | the Sandwich Islands | november | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sight | past | Captain not said here | the island of Maui | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | spell | participle · passive | Captain Cook | Mowee obl; chart obj; phonetically property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme it=Manner |
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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