Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 16
He was called by the Hawaiians “O Lono,” because they thought he was the god Lono, one of the chief gods of the ancient Hawaiians.
Who acts: Hawaiians, Cook · What happens: call, think, be · To what, where: Cook, god · 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 (Hawaiians, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Hawaiians | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hawaiians | det |
| 6 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lono | punct |
| 8 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 9 Lono | case |
| 9 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lono | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lono | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 thought | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | advcl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 god | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 god | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 god | det |
| 18 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 god | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 god | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gods | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gods | det |
| 24 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gods | amod |
| 25 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Hawaiians | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Hawaiians | det |
| 28 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Hawaiians | amod |
| 29 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 gods | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past · passive | the Hawaiians | Cook | Lono parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Cook | the god | Lono appos; one of the chief gods of the ancient Hawaiians appos | tree rules |
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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