Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 66
We have done wrong because we were greedy after the iron and let Kapu-puu go to steal.
Who acts: We, Kapu · What happens: do, be, let, go, steal
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 (We, Kapu), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 done | xcomp |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 greedy | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 greedy | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 greedy | cop |
| 8 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 done | advcl |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 iron | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 iron | det |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 greedy | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | conj |
| 14 | Kapu | Kapu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 puu | punct |
| 16 | puu | puu | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 Kapu | dep |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 let | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 steal | mark |
| 19 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | We | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | we | after the iron | greedy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | We not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | present | Kapu | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | steal | to-infinitive | Kapu not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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