Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 105
Thus in lordly dignity they ignored each other until, standing side by side, each made a sudden movement as if expecting to find the other off his guard.
Who acts: arms, each · What happens: ignore, stand, make, expect, find off · To what, where: each, lordly dignity, side, sudden movement, other
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 (arms, each), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 ignored | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dignity | case |
| 3 | lordly | lordly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dignity | amod |
| 4 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ignored | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ignored | nsubj |
| 6 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 ignored | obj |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 ignored | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 standing | punct |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ignored | advcl |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ignored | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 movement | det |
| 19 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 movement | amod |
| 20 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 expecting | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 expecting | mark |
| 23 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 made | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 expecting | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 other | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 find | obj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 find | compound:prt |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 guard | nmod:poss |
| 30 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ignored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | past | arms = arm | each | lordly dignity | thus property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | ||
| 2 | stand | gerund | arms = arm not said here | side | by side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | past | each | a sudden movement | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset movement=Product | ||||
| 4 | expect | gerund | each not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | find off not said to happen | to-infinitive | each not said here | the other | combatant's guard obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent other=Theme guard=Attribute |
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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