Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 137
He saw that one of his masts was rotten, so he went back to make repairs, and anchored again at Ke-ala-ke-kua.
Who acts: Lono, one · What happens: see, be, go back, make, anchor · To what, where: repairs, ke kua
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 (Lono, one), 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 | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 rotten | mark |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 rotten | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 masts | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 masts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rotten | cop |
| 9 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | advcl |
| 17 | repairs | repair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 anchored | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 anchored | cc |
| 20 | anchored | anchor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | conj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 anchored | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 kua | case |
| 23 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 kua | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ke | punct |
| 25 | ala | ala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Ke | appos |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ala | punct |
| 27 | ke | ke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kua | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 ke | punct |
| 29 | kua | kua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 anchored | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Lono | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | one of Lono's masts | rotten property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | Lono | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Lono not said here | repairs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset repair=Product | ||||
| 5 | anchor | participle | Lono not said here | ke kua Ke | again | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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