Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 141
Some of the men said, “They cry out if they are hurt, like any man.”
Who acts: Some, man · What happens: say, cry out, hurt · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Some, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 said | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 men | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cry | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cry | punct |
| 8 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cry | nsubj |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cry | compound:prt |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 hurt | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hurt | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurt | aux:pass |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cry | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hurt | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Some of the men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express in a quote | present | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hurt a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | man | like any man | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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