Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 169
When the chief saw the king by the side of Captain Cook he cried out: “O Kalani!
Who acts: chief, King · What happens: see, cry out · To what, where: 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 (chief, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Cook | case |
| 11 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Cook | compound |
| 12 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cried | compound:prt |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kalani | punct |
| 18 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 19 Kalani | discourse |
| 19 | Kalani | Kalani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | parataxis |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kalani | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the chief | the king | by the side of Captain Cook | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | King | Kalani parataxis | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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