Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 184
When the officers and men saw that Captain Cook and some others had been killed, they ran down, got on the boat, fired guns and killed many of the natives.
Who acts: officers, daggers · What happens: see, kill, run down, get, fire · To what, where: Captain, boat, many · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (officers, daggers), 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 | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 officers | det |
| 3 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 men | cc |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 officers | conj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ran | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 killed | mark |
| 8 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Captain | flat |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 others | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 others | det |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Captain | conj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 killed | aux:pass |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 ran | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ran | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 boat | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boat | det |
| 24 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 guns | punct |
| 26 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 guns | amod |
| 27 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 boat | appos |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 killed | cc |
| 29 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ran | conj |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 killed | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 natives | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 natives | det |
| 33 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 many | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the officers and men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Captain and some others | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run down | past | daggers = dagger | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | participle | daggers = dagger not said here | the boat | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on boat=Source | ||||
| 5 | fire | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | kill | past | daggers = dagger not said here | many of the natives | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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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