Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 161
Captain Cook tried to persuade the king to go to the ship with him.
Who acts: Captain Cook, king · What happens: try, persuade, go · To what, where: king, ship
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 (Captain Cook, king), 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 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cook | compound |
| 2 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 persuade | mark |
| 5 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 persuade | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 persuade | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Captain Cook | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | Captain Cook not said here | the king | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the ship | with King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ship=Initial_Location |
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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