Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 248
When his name and position were announced to the outposts of the Maui army, they fell flat on the face in the sand while he passed by.
Who acts: outposts, Kiwalao · What happens: announce, fall, pass by, name · To what, where: name, outposts, face
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (outposts, Kiwalao), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 announced | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 announced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 position | cc |
| 5 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 announced | aux:pass |
| 7 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 outposts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 outposts | det |
| 10 | outposts | outpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 announced | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 army | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 army | det |
| 13 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 army | compound |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 outposts | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 announced | conj |
| 18 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 17 fell | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 face | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 face | det |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sand | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sand | det |
| 24 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 face | nmod |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 passed | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 passed | nsubj |
| 27 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | advcl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 passed | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past · passive | Kiwalao's name and position | the outposts of the Maui army | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to outpost=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | outposts = outpost | the face in the sand | flat property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location | |||
| 3 | pass by | past | Kiwalao | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | name | Kiwalao | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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