Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 160
Officers and men took guns and swords and prepared to go ashore and capture the king.
Who acts: Officers · What happens: take, go, capture · To what, where: guns, 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 (Officers), 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 | Officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 men | cc |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Officers | conj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 swords | cc |
| 7 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 guns | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prepared | cc |
| 9 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 guns | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 prepared | xcomp |
| 12 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 capture | cc |
| 14 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 capture | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Officers and men | guns and swords | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Officers and men not said here | ashore property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | capture | infinitive | Officers and men not said here | the king | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
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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