Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 27
Soon a crowd of people came together, shouting with fear and confused thought until the harbour resounded with noise.
Who acts: crowd, confused · What happens: come together, shout, think, resound · To what, where: fear, harbour
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 (crowd, confused), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crowd | det |
| 3 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crowd | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouting | punct |
| 9 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fear | case |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouting | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 13 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fear | acl |
| 15 | until | until | ADP | _ | 17 harbour | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 harbour | det |
| 17 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obl |
| 18 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 harbour | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 noise | case |
| 20 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resounded | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come together | past | a crowd of people | soon, together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | a crowd of people not said here | with fear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | confused | fear not said here | until the harbour | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fear=Theme | |||
| 4 | resound | participle | the harbour not said here | with noise | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with noise=Theme |
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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