Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 100
He looked into the sky, glanced along the sand, then shouted:
Who acts: Bay · What happens: look, glance, shout
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bay), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 sky | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sky | det |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 glanced | punct |
| 7 | glanced | glance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looked | conj |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 sand | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sand | det |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glanced | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouted | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 shouted | advmod |
| 13 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Bay | into the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glance | participle | Bay not said here | along the sand | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent along sand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | Bay not said here | then | 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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