Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 111
As he drew near the channel between Maui and Hawaii, Ka-meha-meha with several of his friends went on board one of the ships and passed the night.
Who acts: Cook, several · What happens: draw, go, pass · To what, where: channel
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, several), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 channel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 channel | det |
| 6 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 Maui | case |
| 8 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Hawaii | cc |
| 10 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maui | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ka | punct |
| 12 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maui | appos |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 meha | punct |
| 14 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 Ka | dep |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 meha | punct |
| 16 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 Ka | dep |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 several | case |
| 18 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 went | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 friends | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friends | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 several | obl |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 24 | board | board | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 ships | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ships | det |
| 28 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 passed | cc |
| 30 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 night | det |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Cook | the channel | between Maui and Hawaii | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past | several of Cook's friends | on one of the ships | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on one=Location | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | several of Cook's friends not said here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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