Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 135
The harmony between the sailors and the Hawaiians was disturbed.
What happens: disturb · To what, where: harmony
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 harmony | det |
| 2 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 sailors | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sailors | det |
| 5 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 harmony | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Hawaiians | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hawaiians | det |
| 8 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 sailors | conj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 10 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 disturbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb | past · passive | the harmony between the sailors and the Hawaiians | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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