Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 110
He was surprised to see the summits of the mountains covered with snow.
Who acts: Cook · What happens: be, see, cover · To what, where: summits, mountains
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 (Cook), 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 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | cop |
| 3 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 surprised | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 summits | det |
| 7 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mountains | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountains | det |
| 10 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 summits | nmod |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mountains | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 snow | case |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Cook | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Cook not said here | the summits of the mountains | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer summit=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | the mountains not said here | with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snow=Theme |
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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