Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 134
Others pushed their boards rapidly through the first waves encountered.
Who acts: Others, first waves · What happens: push, encounter · To what, where: boards
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 (Others, first waves), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 boards | nmod:poss |
| 4 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pushed | obj |
| 5 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 2 pushed | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 10 encountered | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 waves | amod |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 encountered | nsubj |
| 10 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pushed | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | Others | shore's boards | rapidly property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme | |||
| 2 | encounter | past | the first waves | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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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