Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 110
The least loosening of muscles on the part of one was interpreted in a moment by the other, and neither one hastened to carry out a move which might place him at the other’s mercy.
Who acts: one, move · What happens: interpret, hasten, carry out, place, loosen · To what, where: least loosening, move, mercy, antagonist, muscles
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 (one, move), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 loosening | det |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 loosening | amod |
| 3 | loosening | loosening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 interpreted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 muscles | case |
| 5 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loosening | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 part | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 muscles | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 part | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 interpreted | aux:pass |
| 12 | interpreted | interpret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 interpreted | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 other | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 interpreted | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hastened | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hastened | cc |
| 21 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hastened | nsubj |
| 23 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 interpreted | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 carry | mark |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hastened | xcomp |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 carry | compound:prt |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 move | det |
| 28 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carry | obj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 place | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 place | aux |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 move | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 place | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 mercy | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 other | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 other | case |
| 37 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carry | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 interpreted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interpret | past · passive | the least loosening of muscles on the part of one | moment | by the other | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | hasten | participle | neither one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carry out | to-infinitive | neither one not said here | a move and place | the other's mercy | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | place | might | a move and place | antagonist | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | loosen | muscles on the part of one | nom loosening «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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