Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 64
The priest heard the cry and replied, “That thought is not right.
Who acts: priest, thought · What happens: hear, reply, not be · To what, where: cry · 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 (priest, thought), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 replied | cc |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 right | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 right | punct |
| 10 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 thought | det |
| 11 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 right | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 right | advmod |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the priest | the cry | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the priest not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | that thought | right property | tree 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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