Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 32
The chiefs sent some men to go out in canoes and see this wonderful thing.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: send, go out, see · To what, where: men, canoes, wonderful thing
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 (chiefs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 canoes | case |
| 10 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the chiefs | some men | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | the chiefs not said here | canoes | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | see | infinitive | the chiefs not said here | this wonderful thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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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