Cook Islands, sentence 18
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The islands as a whole are named after the English captain and explorer James Cook, who visited during the 1770s and named Manuae "Hervey Island" after Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol.
Who acts: English captain · What happens: name, visit · To what, where: islands, Manuae Hervey Island
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cook Islands». 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 article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 islands | det |
| 2 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 named | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 whole | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 whole | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 islands | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 named | aux:pass |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 captain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 captain | det |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 captain | amod |
| 11 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 named | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 James | cc |
| 13 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 James | compound |
| 14 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 captain | conj |
| 15 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 James | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 visited | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 visited | nsubj |
| 18 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 captain | parataxis |
| 19 | during | during | ADP | _ | 21 1770s | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 1770s | det |
| 21 | 1770s | 1770 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 18 visited | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 named | cc |
| 23 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 visited | conj |
| 24 | Manuae | Manuae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Island | compound |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Island | punct |
| 26 | Hervey | Hervey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Island | compound |
| 27 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 named | obl |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Island | punct |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 Hervey | case |
| 30 | Augustus | Augustus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Hervey | compound |
| 31 | Hervey | Hervey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 named | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Earl | punct |
| 33 | 3rd | 3rd | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 34 Earl | amod |
| 34 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Hervey | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Bristol | case |
| 36 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Earl | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present · passive | the islands as a whole | after the English captain and explorer James | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | visit | past | the English captain and explorer James | during the 1770s | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | name | past | the English captain and explorer James not said here | Manuae Hervey Island | after Augustus Hervey | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
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