Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 143
Soon after the group of riders in which he was placed started shoreward a squall broke over them.
Who acts: group, squall · What happens: place, start, break · To what, where: group, riders, shoreward
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 (group, squall), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 started | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 group | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 group | det |
| 4 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 riders | case |
| 6 | riders | rider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 group | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 placed | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 placed | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 placed | aux:pass |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 riders | acl:relcl |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | shoreward | shoreward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 squall | det |
| 15 | squall | squall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 started | conj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 broke | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | group | riders | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 2 | start | past | the group of riders | shoreward | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoreward=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | break | past | a squall | over chiefs = chief | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location |
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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