Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 168
Captain Cook had issued an order forbidding canoes to come near the ships.
Who acts: order · What happens: issue, forbid, come · To what, where: Captain, canoes, ships
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 (order), 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 | 4 issued | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Captain | flat |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 issued | aux |
| 4 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 order | det |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 issued | obj |
| 7 | forbidding | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 order | acl |
| 8 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 forbidding | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forbidding | advcl |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 ships | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ships | det |
| 13 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past · perfect · passive | Captain | a order obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forbid | gerund | a order not said here | canoes | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer canoe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | a order not said here | the ships | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near ship=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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