Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 47
They saw the skin of a bullock hanging in the front part of the ship and said, “Another mischief-making sorceress has been killed.
Who acts: Hawaiians, bullock · What happens: see, hang, say, make, kill · To what, where: skin, front part, making sorceress · 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 (Hawaiians, bullock), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 skin | det |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bullock | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bullock | det |
| 7 | bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skin | nmod |
| 8 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 bullock | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 part | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 part | det |
| 11 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 part | amod |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hanging | 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 part | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 killed | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 killed | punct |
| 20 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 sorceress | det |
| 21 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 mischief | punct |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 sorceress | amod |
| 24 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 killed | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 killed | aux:pass |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | the skin of a bullock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | a bullock not said here | the front part of the ship | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in part=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | gerund | mischief compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | another making sorceress | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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