Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 138
When the natives saw the ships returning they went out again, but not as before.
Who acts: natives, ships · What happens: see, return, go out · To what, where: ships
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 (natives, ships), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 natives | det |
| 3 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ships | det |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 ships | acl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 returning | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 before | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 before | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 before | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 before | advmod |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the natives | the ships | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | return | gerund | the ships not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go out | past | natives = native | again | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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