Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 186
When the sailors saw that Captain Cook was dead, they fired guns from the ship.
Who acts: sailors, Captain Cook · What happens: see, be, fire · To what, where: guns, ship · 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 (sailors, Captain Cook), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sailors | det |
| 3 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fired | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 dead | mark |
| 6 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cook | compound |
| 7 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dead | cop |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fired | nsubj |
| 12 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fired | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 ship | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ship | det |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fired | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the sailors | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Captain Cook | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fire | past | sailors = sailor | guns | the ship | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent gun=Theme from ship=Initial_Location |
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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