Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 17
The ship was seen coming up from the west and going north.
Who acts: ship · What happens: see, come up, go · To what, where: ship, west
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 (ship), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux:pass |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 seen | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 coming | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 west | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 west | det |
| 9 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 going | cc |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 coming | conj |
| 12 | north | north | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | the ship | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come up | gerund | the ship not said here | the west | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from west=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the ship not said here | north 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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