Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 63
In the confusion attendant upon the death of this great chief the bow-legged warrior escaped to his friends and soon all the little company were beyond pursuit.
Who acts: legged warrior, friends, great chief · What happens: escape, be, die · To what, where: great chief, pursuit, confusion attendant
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 (legged warrior, friends, great chief), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 attendant | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 attendant | det |
| 3 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attendant | compound |
| 4 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 death | det |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attendant | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chief | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 chief | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chief | amod |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 death | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 warrior | det |
| 13 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 legged | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 bow | punct |
| 15 | legged | legged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 warrior | amod |
| 16 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 escaped | nsubj |
| 17 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chief | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 escaped | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 company | cc |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 company | advmod |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 company | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 company | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 company | amod |
| 26 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 friends | conj |
| 27 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 friends | acl |
| 28 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 29 pursuit | case |
| 29 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 were | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attendant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | the legged warrior | this great chief not said here | to captive's friends and all little company | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chief=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | be | past | captive's friends and all little company not said here | pursuit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond pursuit=Location | ||||
| 4 | die | this great chief | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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