Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 177
When Lono (Captain Cook) saw the spear pushed between the king and himself he caught his sword and struck that chief on the head, but the sword slipped and cut the cheek.
Who acts: Lono, spear, sword · What happens: see, push, catch, strike, slip, cut · To what, where: King, sword, chief, cheek
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 (Lono, spear, sword), 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 | 7 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cook | punct |
| 4 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cook | compound |
| 5 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lono | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cook | punct |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pushed | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spear | det |
| 9 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | nsubj |
| 10 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 himself | cc |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 pushed | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | nsubj |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pushed | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sword | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 struck | cc |
| 21 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 caught | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 chief | mark |
| 23 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 struck | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 head | det |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 struck | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 slipped | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 slipped | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sword | det |
| 30 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 slipped | nsubj |
| 31 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pushed | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 cut | cc |
| 33 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 slipped | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cheek | det |
| 35 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cut | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Lono | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | push | past | the spear | King | between the king | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between king=Destination | |||
| 3 | catch | past | spear | spear's sword | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | spear not said here | chief | on the head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent chief=Instrument on head=Patient | |||
| 5 | slip | past | the sword | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | cut | past | the sword not said here | the cheek | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cheek=Product |
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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