Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 28
Suddenly a giant Hawaiian with a very long and heavy war club scattered the group around the fainting warrior.
Who acts: giant Hawaiian · What happens: scatter, faint · To what, where: group, fainting warrior
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 (giant Hawaiian), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 13 scattered | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Hawaiian | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Hawaiian | amod |
| 4 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 scattered | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 club | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 club | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 club | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heavy | cc |
| 10 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 long | conj |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 club | compound |
| 12 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Hawaiian | nmod |
| 13 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 group | det |
| 15 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scattered | obj |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 warrior | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 warrior | det |
| 18 | fainting | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 warrior | amod |
| 19 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scattered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past | a giant Hawaiian with a long war club | the group | the fainting warrior | suddenly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent group=Theme around warrior=Destination | ||
| 2 | faint | gerund | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: 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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