Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 137
This was seldom attempted without an ignominious overthrow of board and rider as the undertow from the beach struggled with the incoming surf.
What happens: attempt, struggle, overthrow · To what, where: This, beach, board
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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 attempted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 attempted | aux:pass |
| 3 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 4 attempted | advmod |
| 4 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 overthrow | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 overthrow | det |
| 7 | ignominious | ignominious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 overthrow | amod |
| 8 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attempted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 board | case |
| 10 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overthrow | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rider | cc |
| 12 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overthrow | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 undertow | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 undertow | det |
| 15 | undertow | undertow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attempted | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 beach | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beach | det |
| 18 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 undertow | nmod |
| 19 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 beach | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 surf | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 surf | det |
| 22 | incoming | incoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 surf | compound |
| 23 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struggled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past · passive | This | without a ignominious overthrow of board and rider; as the undertow from the beach; seldom property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | struggle | participle | the beach not said here | with the incoming surf | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with surf=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | overthrow | board | nom overthrow «act 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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