Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 155
They were troubled, and Captain Cook went to ask the king about the boat.
Who acts: people, Captain Cook · What happens: be, go, ask · To what, where: king
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 (people, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 troubled | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 troubled | cop |
| 3 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 6 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cook | compound |
| 7 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 troubled | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 boat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boat | det |
| 15 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people | troubled property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Captain Cook | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Captain Cook not said here | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient about boat=Topic |
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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