Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 83
As he, struck by a musket ball, fell back dead, she cried out: “I surrender!”
Who acts: guardian, wife · What happens: strike, fall back, cry out, surrender · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (guardian, wife), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 struck | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cried | advcl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 ball | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ball | det |
| 7 | musket | musket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ball | compound |
| 8 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cried | compound:prt |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 surrender | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 surrender | nsubj |
| 20 | surrender | surrender | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 surrender | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 surrender | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | guardian | by a musket ball | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ball=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall back | past | guardian not said here | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | surrender in a quote | present | wife | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «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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