Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 152
He was angry, and thought he would secretly take one of the ship’s boats, break it all to pieces for the iron in it, and also because he wanted revenge for the blow which knocked him down.
Who acts: Lono, blow · What happens: be, think, take, break, want, knock down · To what, where: one, boat, revenge, Lono · 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 (Lono, blow), 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 | 3 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | cop |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | parataxis |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 9 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 boats | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ship | det |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boats | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 ship | case |
| 16 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 break | punct |
| 18 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 break | obj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 it | det |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 pieces | case |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 break | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 iron | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 iron | det |
| 25 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pieces | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 iron | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wanted | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wanted | cc |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 33 wanted | advmod |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 wanted | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 wanted | nsubj |
| 33 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | parataxis |
| 34 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wanted | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 blow | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 blow | det |
| 37 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wanted | obl |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 knocked | nsubj |
| 39 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 blow | acl:relcl |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 knocked | obj |
| 41 | down | down | ADP | _ | 39 knocked | compound:prt |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Lono | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | take | would | Lono | one of the ship's boats | secretly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 4 | break | infinitive | Lono not said here | boat | to pieces for the iron in iron result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to piece=Result | |||
| 5 | want | past | Lono | revenge | for the blow | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme | |||
| 6 | knock down | past | the blow | Lono | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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