Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 57
The friends of the captive were still near at hand and heard him cry out that he was captured.
Who acts: friends, captive · What happens: be, hear, cry out, capture · To what, where: hand, captive
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 (friends, captive), 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 | 2 friends | det |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hand | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 captive | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 captive | det |
| 5 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 friends | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 near | advmod |
| 8 | near | near | ADV | _ | 10 hand | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | obj |
| 14 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 heard | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cry | compound:prt |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 captured | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 captured | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 captured | aux:pass |
| 19 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cry | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the friends of the captive | hand | still | near property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | hear | past | the friends of the captive not said here | captive | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | infinitive | captive not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | capture | past · passive | captive | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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