Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 35
They had known iron before because of iron in sticks washed up on the land.
What happens: know, wash up · To what, where: chief, sticks, land
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: 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 | 3 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | aux |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | xcomp |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 known | advmod |
| 6 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 iron | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 because | fixed |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sticks | case |
| 10 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 known | obl |
| 11 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sticks | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 washed | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 washed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · perfect · passive | chief | sticks | because iron; before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | wash up | participle | sticks not said here | the land | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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