Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 34
The young giant screamed with joy when he struck to earth enemy after enemy.
Who acts: young giant · What happens: scream, strike · To what, where: young giant
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 (young giant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 giant | amod |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 giant | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 struck | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 enemy | case |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enemy | compound |
| 12 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 enemy | case |
| 14 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | participle | the young giant not said here | with joy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | the young giant | after enemy | to earth enemy result; giant nsubj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to enemy=Result |
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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