Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 18
Kauai lay spread out in beauty before Lono, and the first anchor was dropped in the bay of Waimea, in the month of January, 1778.
What happens: spread out, drop · To what, where: Kauai, beauty, first anchor, bay
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 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | aux:pass |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 spread | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 beauty | case |
| 6 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | obl |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 Lono | case |
| 8 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dropped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dropped | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 anchor | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 anchor | amod |
| 13 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dropped | aux:pass |
| 15 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spread | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bay | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bay | det |
| 18 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dropped | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Waimea | case |
| 20 | Waimea | Waimea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bay | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 month | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 month | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 month | det |
| 24 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dropped | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 January | case |
| 26 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 month | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 1778 | punct |
| 28 | 1778 | 1778 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 January | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | past · passive | Kauai | beauty | before Lono | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in beauty=Destination | |||
| 2 | drop | past · passive | the first anchor | the bay of Waimea | month | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in bay=Destination |
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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