Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 33
An English Captain (George C. Beckley) some time near the beginning of the century brought a small ship to the islands and sold it to the chiefs.
Who acts: English Captain · What happens: bring, sell, begin · To what, where: small ship, islands, ship, chiefs, century
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English Captain), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Captain | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Captain | amod |
| 3 | Captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 George | punct |
| 5 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Captain | appos |
| 6 | C. | C. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 George | flat |
| 7 | Beckley | Beckley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 George | flat |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 George | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 beginning | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beginning | det |
| 13 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 century | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 century | det |
| 16 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beginning | nmod |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ship | det |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ship | amod |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 islands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 islands | det |
| 23 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 brought | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sold | cc |
| 25 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sold | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 chiefs | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chiefs | det |
| 29 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sold | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | a English Captain | a small ship | the islands | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Theme to island=Destination | |||
| 2 | sell | past | a English Captain not said here | ship | the chiefs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to chief=Recipient | |||
| 3 | begin | the century | nom beginning «event 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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