Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 106
In a moment there was a confused mass of squirming limbs and arms and writhing bodies.
What happens: be, squirm · To what, where: confused mass
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mass | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mass | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mass | det |
| 7 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mass | amod |
| 8 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 limbs | case |
| 10 | squirming | squirm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 limbs | amod |
| 11 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mass | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arms | cc |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 limbs | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bodies | cc |
| 15 | writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bodies | compound |
| 16 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 limbs | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a confused mass | moment | of squirming limbs and arms and writhing bodies | tree rules | |||
| 2 | squirm | gerund | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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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