Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 191
A priest kindly returned a part of the body to the foreigners to be taken on their ship.
Who acts: priest · What happens: return, take · To what, where: part, foreigners, ship
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 (priest), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 body | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 foreigners | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foreigners | det |
| 12 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 taken | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 returned | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ship | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ship | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | a priest | a part of the body | the foreigners | kindly property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme to foreigner=Destination | ||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive · passive | a priest not said here | bodies's ship | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on ship=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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