Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 142
Some of them thought they would test Lono, so went up on the ship and took iron.
Who acts: Some, man · What happens: think, test, go up, take · To what, where: Lono, ship, iron · 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: who acts (Some, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 test | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 test | aux |
| 7 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 test | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 went | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 18 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Some of man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | test | would | man | Lono | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lono=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | the ship | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | take | past | iron | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Theme |
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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