Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 146
He opposed their taking his boat and pushed them off.
Who acts: King, sailors · What happens: oppose, take, push off · To what, where: boat, sailors
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 (King, sailors), 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 opposed | nsubj |
| 2 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 taking | nsubj |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 opposed | ccomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 boat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pushed | cc |
| 8 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opposed | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pushed | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 pushed | compound:prt |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oppose | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | gerund | sailors = sailor | King's boat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | push off | past | King not said here | sailors = sailor | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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