Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 17
After reaching the beach they knelt for a long time in prayer.
Who acts: man · What happens: reach, kneel · To what, where: beach
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beach | det |
| 4 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knelt | nsubj |
| 6 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beach | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knelt | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 prayer | case |
| 12 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reaching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | the beach | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent beach=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kneel | past | man | the beach not said here | time | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Topic |
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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