Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 157
Perhaps some native has stolen it and taken it to some other place.”
What happens: steal, take · To what, where: native, boat, other place
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: 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 stolen | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 native | det |
| 3 | native | native | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stolen | aux |
| 5 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stolen | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taken | cc |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stolen | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 taken | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 place | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stolen | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present · perfect · passive | some native | boat obj; perhaps property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | boat | some other place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to place=Destination |
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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