Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 86
Of course, this was a jumbled mass of words or sounds with but very little meaning.
Who acts: this · What happens: jumble, be · To what, where: jumbled mass
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), 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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 8 mass | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 mass | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mass | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mass | det |
| 7 | jumbled | jumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mass | amod |
| 8 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mass | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 sounds | cc |
| 12 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 words | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 words | nmod |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 meaning | cc |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 little | advmod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 meaning | amod |
| 17 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mass | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jumble | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | a jumbled mass but little meaning | of words or sounds; little meaning conj | 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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