Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 147
One of them ran up with a club and struck Polea and knocked him down.
Who acts: One · What happens: run up, strike, knock down · To what, where: Polea
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 club | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 club | det |
| 8 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 struck | cc |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 11 | Polea | Polea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knocked | cc |
| 13 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 struck | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knocked | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 knocked | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | One of sailors | with a club | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with club=Material | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | One of sailors not said here | Polea | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent polea=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | knock down | past | One of sailors not said here | Polea | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=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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