Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 49
These messengers returned and told the king and chiefs about the kind of men they had seen, what they were doing, their manner of speech, and the death of some of the monsters of the ocean.
Who acts: messengers · What happens: return, tell, see, do · To what, where: death, king, men, kind · 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 (messengers), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 messengers | det |
| 2 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chiefs | cc |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 king | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 kind | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kind | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kind | nmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 men | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 doing | punct |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 doing | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 doing | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 doing | aux |
| 22 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 kind | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 manner | punct |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 manner | nmod:poss |
| 25 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 doing | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 speech | case |
| 27 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 manner | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 death | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 death | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 death | det |
| 31 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 some | case |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 death | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 monsters | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 monsters | det |
| 36 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 some | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 ocean | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ocean | det |
| 39 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 monsters | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | this messengers | the death of some of the monsters of the ocean | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | this messengers not said here | the king and chiefs | about the kind of men | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent king=Recipient about kind=Topic | |||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | messengers = messenger | men not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | past · progressive | messengers = messenger | the kind of men | messengers's manner of speech obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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