Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 170
O the sea is not right—Kalimu has been killed!
What happens: not be, kill · To what, where: Kalimu
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: 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 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 right | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 right | advmod |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
| 8 | Kalimu | Kalimu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 killed | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 killed | aux:pass |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 right | parataxis |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | of the sea; right property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill | present · perfect · passive | Kalimu | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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