Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 71
That night guns were fired and sky-rockets sent up into the sky, for the sailors were glad to have found such a fine country.
Who acts: sailors · What happens: fire, send up, be, find · To what, where: night guns, sky rockets, sky, fine country
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 (sailors), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guns | compound |
| 3 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fired | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fired | aux:pass |
| 5 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rockets | cc |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rockets | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sky | punct |
| 9 | rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fired | conj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rockets | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 sent | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glad | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 glad | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sailors | det |
| 18 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 glad | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 glad | cop |
| 20 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fired | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 found | mark |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 found | aux |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 glad | advcl |
| 24 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 country | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 country | det |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 country | amod |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | past · passive | night guns | sky rockets conj | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send up | participle | sky rockets not said here | the sky | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the sailors | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive · perfect | the sailors not said here | such fine country | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Topic |
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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