Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 3
He recognised the close relationship in language and features, between inhabitants of many of these island worlds.
Who acts: response · What happens: recognise · To what, where: close relationship, language
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 (response), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 recognised | nsubj |
| 2 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 relationship | det |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 relationship | amod |
| 5 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recognised | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 language | case |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 relationship | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 features | cc |
| 9 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 language | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 inhabitants | punct |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 inhabitants | case |
| 12 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 relationship | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 worlds | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 worlds | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 worlds | case |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 worlds | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 worlds | compound |
| 18 | worlds | world | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 inhabitants | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | response | the close relationship and inhabitants of this many island worlds | language and features | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer relationship=Stimulus |
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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