Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 138
Then the acrobat received the jeers of the people as he and his boat rolled under the foam.
Who acts: acrobat, people · What happens: receive, roll, jeer · To what, where: jeers, foam
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 (acrobat, people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 received | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 acrobat | det |
| 3 | acrobat | acrobat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jeers | det |
| 6 | jeers | jeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 received | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 jeers | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 rolled | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rolled | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 boat | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 boat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 he | conj |
| 15 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | advcl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 foam | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foam | det |
| 18 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the acrobat | the jeers of the people | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jeer=Theme | |||
| 2 | roll | past | acrobat | the foam | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foam=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | jeer | the people | nom jeer «communication intransitive»: of=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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