Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 22
They thought it was something evil and hurried to the shore, trembling and frightened by this wonderful apparition.
Who acts: man, thing · What happens: think, be, hurry, tremble, frighten · To what, where: shore · 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 (man, thing), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 evil | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 evil | cop |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 evil | nsubj |
| 6 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hurried | cc |
| 8 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 evil | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shore | det |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trembling | punct |
| 13 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 evil | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 frightened | cc |
| 15 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 evil | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 apparition | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 apparition | det |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 apparition | amod |
| 19 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frightened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | thing | something nsubj; evil property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurry | participle | thing not said here | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination | ||||
| 4 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | frighten | participle | thing not said here | by this wonderful apparition | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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