Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 7
The home name, the name used for centuries, could not be supplanted by an English discoverer.
Who acts: English discoverer · What happens: use, not supplant · To what, where: name, home name
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 (English discoverer), 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 | 3 name | det |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | compound |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 supplanted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | conj |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 name | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 centuries | case |
| 9 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 used | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 supplanted | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 supplanted | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 supplanted | aux:pass |
| 14 | supplanted | supplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 discoverer | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 discoverer | det |
| 17 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 discoverer | amod |
| 18 | discoverer | discoverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 supplanted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 supplanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the name not said here | century | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not supplant | could · passive | a English discoverer | the home name and the name | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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