Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 20
A man by the name of Mapua, and others, were out fishing, with their boats anchored.
Who acts: others, man · What happens: be, anchor, name · To what, where: fishing, Mapua
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 (others, man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 anchored | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 name | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Mapua | case |
| 7 | Mapua | Mapua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fishing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fishing | cc |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fishing | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 others | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fishing | cop |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 were | compound:prt |
| 14 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 anchored | punct |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 anchored | mark |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 boats | nmod:poss |
| 18 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 anchored | nsubj |
| 19 | anchored | anchor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 anchored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | others | fishing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | anchor | past | a man by the name of Mapua and fishing | others's boats nsubj | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | Mapua | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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