Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 150
Because he was afraid Lono would kill him he stopped the quarrel.
Who acts: Polea, afraid Lono · What happens: be, kill, stop · To what, where: afraid Lono, Polea, quarrel
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 (Polea, afraid Lono), 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 Lono | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Lono | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Lono | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Lono | amod |
| 5 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | aux |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 quarrel | det |
| 12 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Polea | afraid Lono | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | would | afraid Lono | Polea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | Polea | the quarrel | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector quarrel=Eventuality |
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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