Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 93
But afterward, when death proved that Captain Cook was “a man and no god,” the feeling of resentment was exceedingly deep and bitter.
Who acts: death, Captain Cook, feeling · What happens: prove, be · To what, where: man
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 (death, Captain Cook, feeling), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 proved | cc |
| 2 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 6 proved | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 proved | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 proved | advmod |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proved | nsubj |
| 6 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 man | mark |
| 8 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cook | compound |
| 9 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 man | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | cop |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deep | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 god | cc |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 god | det |
| 16 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 feeling | det |
| 20 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deep | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 resentment | case |
| 22 | resentment | resentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feeling | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 deep | cop |
| 24 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 25 deep | advmod |
| 25 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proved | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bitter | cc |
| 27 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 deep | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | death | afterward property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Captain Cook | a man and no god | no god conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | the feeling of resentment | deep, exceedingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the feeling of resentment not said here | 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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