Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 140
Some, however, persisted in believing that these were gods.
What happens: persist, believe, be · To what, where: Some, gods · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 persisted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 persisted | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 persisted | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 persisted | punct |
| 5 | persisted | persist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 believing | mark |
| 7 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 persisted | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 gods | mark |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 gods | det |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gods | cop |
| 11 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 believing | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 persisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persist | participle · passive | Some | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | this gods | tree rules |
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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