Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 33
They went close to the ship and saw iron on the outside of the ship.
Who acts: chief · What happens: go, see · To what, where: ship, iron, outside
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 (chief), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ship | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 outside | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 outside | det |
| 12 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 outside | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | chief | the ship | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ship=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | chief not said here | iron | the outside of the ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iron=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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