Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 13
The old woman looked up, and then fell on her face, crying:
Who acts: old woman · What happens: look up, fall, cry · To what, where: face
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fell | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 fell | advmod |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crying | punct |
| 14 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fell | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | the old woman | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | Hawaii's face | then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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