Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 153
This theft of a boat was the cause of the quarrel with, and death of, Captain Cook.
Who acts: theft, Captain Cook · What happens: be, die · To what, where: cause
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 (theft, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 theft | det |
| 2 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 theft | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cause | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cause | det |
| 8 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 quarrel | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 quarrel | det |
| 11 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 quarrel | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 death | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 death | cc |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Cook | case |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 of | punct |
| 18 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Cook | compound |
| 19 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 death | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this theft of a boat | the cause | of the quarrel; death of Captain Cook nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die | Captain Cook | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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