Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 23
A horrified expression crossed his face and he hastily started to withdraw the bananas.
Who acts: horrified expression, expression · What happens: cross, start, withdraw · To what, where: face, bananas
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 (horrified expression, expression), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 expression | det |
| 2 | horrified | horrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 expression | amod |
| 3 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 started | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 started | nsubj |
| 9 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 10 started | advmod |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 withdraw | mark |
| 12 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 started | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bananas | det |
| 14 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 withdraw | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | a horrified expression | expression's face | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 2 | start | past | expression | hastily property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | withdraw | to-infinitive | expression not said here | the bananas | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=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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