Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 5
Alexander Campbell, who, in 1809, was left in Honolulu by a whaling ship on account of frozen feet, revealed the situation.
What happens: leave, freeze, reveal, account · To what, where: Alexander, Honolulu, situation, frozen feet
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alexander | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1809 | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 1809 | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1809 | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1809 | case |
| 7 | 1809 | 1809 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Alexander | list |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alexander | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux:pass |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Honolulu | case |
| 12 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 ship | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ship | det |
| 15 | whaling | whaling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ship | compound |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 account | case |
| 18 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ship | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 20 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 feet | amod |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 account | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 revealed | punct |
| 23 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 situation | det |
| 25 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 revealed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Alexander | Honolulu | by a whaling ship on account of frozen feet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in honolulu=Location | |||
| 2 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | reveal | past | the situation | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Topic | |||||
| 4 | account | frozen feet | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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