Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 147
Vai-ta-piha easily extricated himself, and balanced upon his surf board was about to dash to land, but he saw in front of his board the body of an insensible chief roll from between two boards and begin to sink.
Who acts: Vai, surf board · What happens: extricate, balance, be, dash, see, begin · To what, where: Vai, land, body, front
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 (Vai, surf board), 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 | Vai | Vai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 extricated | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vai | punct |
| 3 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piha | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ta | punct |
| 5 | piha | piha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vai | appos |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 7 extricated | advmod |
| 7 | extricated | extricate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 extricated | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 balanced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 balanced | cc |
| 11 | balanced | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 extricated | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 17 about | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 board | nmod:poss |
| 14 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 board | compound |
| 15 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 about | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 about | cop |
| 17 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 balanced | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 dash | mark |
| 19 | dash | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 about | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 land | case |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dash | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 saw | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 extricated | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 front | case |
| 27 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saw | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 board | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 board | nmod:poss |
| 30 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 front | nmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 body | det |
| 32 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saw | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 roll | case |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 roll | det |
| 35 | insensible | insensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 roll | amod |
| 36 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 roll | compound |
| 37 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 body | nmod |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 boards | case |
| 39 | between | between | ADP | _ | 41 boards | case |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 boards | nummod |
| 41 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 roll | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 begin | cc |
| 43 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 sink | mark |
| 45 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 begin | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 extricated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extricate | past | Vai | Vai | easily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | balance | past | Vai not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Vai's surf board | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dash | to-infinitive | Vai's surf board not said here | land | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=Destination | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Vai | the body of a insensible chief roll from two boards | front of Vai's board | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | begin | present | Vai not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | sink | to-infinitive | Vai not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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