Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 76
After this there was promiscuous living among the men of the ship and the people of the land, with the result that the vile diseases of the white people were quickly scattered over all the islands.
Who acts: this, result · What happens: be, live, scatter · To what, where: vile diseases, islands
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 (this, result), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 promiscuous | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 promiscuous | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 promiscuous | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 promiscuous | cop |
| 5 | promiscuous | promiscuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 promiscuous | advcl |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 living | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 men | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 people | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ship | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 result | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 result | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 result | det |
| 22 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promiscuous | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 scattered | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 diseases | det |
| 25 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 diseases | amod |
| 26 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 people | det |
| 29 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 diseases | nmod |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 scattered | aux:pass |
| 32 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 33 scattered | advmod |
| 33 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 result | acl:relcl |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 islands | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 islands | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 islands | det |
| 37 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 scattered | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 promiscuous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | there | the result conj; promiscuous property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | this not said here | among the men of the ship and the people of the land | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among man=Location | ||||
| 3 | scatter | past · passive | the result not said here | the vile diseases of the white people | all islands | quickly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over island=Destination |
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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