Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 195
On the 29th of that month they secured water and purchased food.
Who acts: ships · What happens: secure, purchase · To what, where: water, 29th
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 (ships), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 29th | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 29th | det |
| 3 | 29th | 29th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 8 secured | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 month | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 month | det |
| 6 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 29th | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 secured | nsubj |
| 8 | secured | secure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 secured | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 food | cc |
| 11 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 secured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | past | ships = ship | water and purchased food | the 29th of that month | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme on 29th=Source | |||
| 2 | purchase | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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