Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 84
But at that moment a ball struck her in the temple and she fell dead by the body of her husband.
Who acts: ball, wife · What happens: strike, fall · To what, where: wife, temple
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 (ball, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 struck | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ball | det |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 struck | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 temple | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 temple | det |
| 11 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fell | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struck | conj |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fell | xcomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 body | det |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 husband | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 husband | nmod:poss |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 body | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | a ball | wife | the temple | moment | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument | ||
| 2 | fall | past | wife | by the body of wife's husband; dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by body=Location |
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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