Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 164
Meanwhile, a chief living across the bay saw Captain Cook going ashore.
Who acts: chief, Captain Cook · What happens: live, see, go · To what, where: bay, Captain Cook
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 (chief, 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 chief | acl |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 bay | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bay | det |
| 8 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 living | obl |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cook | compound |
| 11 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | a chief not said here | the bay | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a chief | Captain Cook | meanwhile property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | Captain Cook not said here | ashore property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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