Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 15
Captain Cook came to Waimea, Kauai.
Who acts: Captain Cook · What happens: come · To what, where: Waimea
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 (Captain Cook), 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 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cook | compound |
| 2 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Waimea | case |
| 5 | Waimea | Waimea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kauai | punct |
| 7 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Waimea | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Captain Cook | Waimea and Kauai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to waimea=Initial_Location |
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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