Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 59
Then he paddled out to the ship and went on board and took iron and went down.
Who acts: profession · What happens: paddle out, go, take, go down · To what, where: ship, board, iron
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 (profession), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 paddled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paddled | nsubj |
| 3 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 paddled | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paddled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paddled | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 board | case |
| 11 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paddled | conj |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paddle out | past | profession | the ship | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to ship=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go | past | profession not said here | board | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | profession not said here | iron | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go down | past | profession not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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