Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 9
There are four different sources of information concerning the coming to and death of Captain Cook in the Hawaiian Islands.
Who acts: four different sources, Captain Cook · What happens: be, concern, come, die · To what, where: coming death, Hawaiian 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 (four different sources, Captain Cook), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sources | nummod |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sources | amod |
| 5 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 information | case |
| 7 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sources | nmod |
| 8 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sources | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 death | det |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 death | amod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 coming | fixed |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 death | cc |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 concerning | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Cook | case |
| 15 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Cook | compound |
| 16 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 death | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Islands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Islands | det |
| 19 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Islands | compound |
| 20 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 concerning | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | four different sources of information | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | four different sources of information not said here | the coming death of Captain Cook | the Hawaiian Islands | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus death=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | die | Captain Cook | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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