Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 166
Sailors saw these men in red cloaks, fired upon them from the ships and killed one of them.
Who acts: Sailors · What happens: see, fire, kill · To what, where: men, red cloaks, ships, one
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 (Sailors), 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 | Sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 men | det |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cloaks | case |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cloaks | amod |
| 7 | cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fired | punct |
| 9 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cloaks | acl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fired | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 ships | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ships | det |
| 14 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fired | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 killed | cc |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 killed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Sailors | this men | red cloaks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fire | participle | red cloaks not said here | the ships | upon sailors = sailor | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon they=Destination | |||
| 3 | kill | past | Sailors not said here | one of sailors | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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