Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 120
They brought offerings—pigs, taro, sweet potatoes, bananas, chickens, and all such things as pleased Captain Cook.
Who acts: man · What happens: bring · To what, where: offerings
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 (man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 pigs | punct |
| 5 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taro | punct |
| 7 | taro | taro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pigs | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 potatoes | punct |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 potatoes | amod |
| 10 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pigs | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bananas | punct |
| 12 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 potatoes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chickens | punct |
| 14 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 potatoes | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 things | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 things | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 things | det |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 Cook | case |
| 21 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Cook | amod |
| 22 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Cook | compound |
| 23 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 things | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | man | offerings | pigs and taro obj; all such things as pleased Captain Cook conj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument offering=Theme pig=Destination |
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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