Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 115
Captain Cook purchased pigs for a piece of iron or barrel hoop, to make axes or knives or fish-hooks.
Who acts: Captain Cook · What happens: purchase, make · To what, where: pigs, axes
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 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 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cook | compound |
| 2 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 purchased | nsubj |
| 3 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 purchased | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 piece | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 purchased | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 iron | case |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 hoop | cc |
| 11 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hoop | compound |
| 12 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 iron | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 purchased | parataxis |
| 16 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 knives | cc |
| 18 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 axes | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 hooks | cc |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hooks | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fish | punct |
| 22 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 axes | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 purchased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | past | Captain Cook | pigs | for a piece of iron or barrel hoop | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent pig=Theme for piece=Asset | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | axes or knives or fish hooks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ax=Product |
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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