Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 183
Many daggers and spears were used in killing Captain Cook.
What happens: use, kill · To what, where: Many daggers, Captain Cook
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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 daggers | amod |
| 2 | daggers | dagger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 spears | cc |
| 4 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 daggers | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 killing | mark |
| 8 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 used | advcl |
| 9 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Cook | compound |
| 10 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 killing | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | Many daggers and spears | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | kill | gerund | Captain Cook | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=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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