Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 48
Then came the whispered call to retreat, and the eight made a terrific onslaught against the circle of warriors surrounding them.
Who acts: whispered call, eight, warriors · What happens: come, whisper, retreat, make, surround · To what, where: terrific onslaught, warriors
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 (whispered call, eight, warriors), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 call | det |
| 4 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 call | amod |
| 5 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 retreat | mark |
| 7 | retreat | retreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eight | det |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 onslaught | det |
| 14 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 onslaught | amod |
| 15 | onslaught | onslaught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 circle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 circle | det |
| 18 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 warriors | case |
| 20 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 circle | nmod |
| 21 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 warriors | acl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 surrounding | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the whispered call | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | retreat | to-infinitive | the whispered call not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | make | past | the eight | a terrific onslaught | against the circle of warriors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset onslaught=Product | |||
| 5 | surround | gerund | warriors not said here | warriors = warrior | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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