Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 19
The night shadows were falling around the camp when these eight men, one by one, crept away from the other chiefs.
Who acts: night shadows, eight men · What happens: fall, creep · To what, where: camp
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night shadows, eight men), 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 shadows | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shadows | compound |
| 3 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 falling | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 falling | aux |
| 5 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 camp | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 falling | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 crept | advmod |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 men | det |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 men | nummod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crept | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 men | appos |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 men | punct |
| 18 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 falling | advcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 crept | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 chiefs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chiefs | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 chiefs | amod |
| 23 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 away | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 falling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · progressive | the night shadows | the camp | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around camp=Location | ||||
| 2 | creep | past | this eight men | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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