Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 54
The bow-legged man was tripped and thrown.
What happens: trip, throw · To what, where: legged man
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: 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 | 5 man | det |
| 2 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 legged | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 bow | punct |
| 4 | legged | legged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tripped | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tripped | aux:pass |
| 7 | tripped | trip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thrown | cc |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tripped | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | past · passive | the legged man | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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