Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 193
Eight days after the death of Lono at Ka-awa-loa the natives again met those who remained on the ship.
Who acts: Eight days, Lono · What happens: meet, remain, die · To what, where: those, 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 (Eight days, Lono), 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 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 met | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 death | det |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Lono | case |
| 7 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 death | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 loa | case |
| 9 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 loa | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ka | punct |
| 11 | awa | awa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loa | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 awa | punct |
| 13 | loa | loa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 natives | det |
| 15 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 met | nsubj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 met | advmod |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 met | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 remained | nsubj |
| 20 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 ship | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ship | det |
| 23 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 remained | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Eight days after the death of Lono at Ka awa loa | those | again | the natives nsubj | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | remain | past | the ship | who nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ship=Location | ||||
| 3 | die | Lono | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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