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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 39

They went up on the ship and saw “a number of men with white foreheads, shining eyes, skin wrinkled, square-cornered heads, indistinct words, and fire in their mouths.”

Who acts: chief · What happens: go up, see, shine, wrinkle, corner · To what, where: ship, number, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

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

nsubjcompound:prtcasedetoblccconjpunctdetobjcasenmodcaseamodnmodpunctconjobjpunctconjaclpunctcompoundpunctamodconjpunctamodconjpunctccoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctpunctrootTheyPRONwentVERBupADPonADPtheDETshipNOUNandCCONJsawVERB“PUNCTaDETnumberNOUNofADPmenNOUNwithADPwhiteADJforeheadsNOUN,PUNCTshiningVERBeyesNOUN,PUNCTskinNOUNwrinkledVERB,PUNCTsquareADJ-PUNCTcorneredVERBheadsNOUN,PUNCTindistinctADJwordsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJfireNOUNinADPtheirPRONmouthsNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 wentnsubj
2wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3upupADP_2 wentcompound:prt
4ononADP_6 shipcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 shipdet
6shipshipNOUNNumber=Sing2 wentobl
7andandCCONJ_8 sawcc
8sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wentconj
9“"PUNCT_11 numberpunct
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 numberdet
11numbernumberNOUNNumber=Sing8 sawobj
12ofofADP_13 mencase
13menmanNOUNNumber=Plur11 numbernmod
14withwithADP_16 foreheadscase
15whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos16 foreheadsamod
16foreheadsforeheadNOUNNumber=Plur13 mennmod
17,,PUNCT_18 shiningpunct
18shiningshineVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 sawconj
19eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur18 shiningobj
20,,PUNCT_21 skinpunct
21skinskinNOUNNumber=Sing19 eyesconj
22wrinkledwrinkleVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 eyesacl
23,,PUNCT_27 headspunct
24squaresquareADJDegree=Pos26 corneredcompound
25--PUNCT_24 squarepunct
26corneredcornerVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass27 headsamod
27headsheadNOUNNumber=Plur19 eyesconj
28,,PUNCT_30 wordspunct
29indistinctindistinctADJDegree=Pos30 wordsamod
30wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur19 eyesconj
31,,PUNCT_33 firepunct
32andandCCONJ_33 firecc
33firefireNOUNNumber=Sing8 sawobl
34ininADP_36 mouthscase
35theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 mouthsnmod:poss
36mouthsmouthNOUNNumber=Plur33 firenmod
37..PUNCT_2 wentpunct
38”"PUNCT_2 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go uppastchiefthe shipvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2seepastchief not said herea number of men with white foreheadsfire in chief's mouths oblvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus
3shine in a quotegerundchief not said hereeyes and skin and cornered heads and indistinct wordsvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4wrinkle in a quoteparticipleeyes and skin and cornered heads and indistinct words not said herevn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5corner in a quoteparticipletree rules

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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