Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 148
In a second he leaped ahead of his board, caught the chief with one hand and with the other secured the surf-board floating by.
Who acts: Vai, other, surf board · What happens: leap, catch, secure, float · To what, where: chief, surf 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: who acts (Vai, other, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 second | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 second | det |
| 3 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaped | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leaped | nsubj |
| 5 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 5 leaped | advmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 board | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 board | nmod:poss |
| 9 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leaped | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hand | nummod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 secured | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 other | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 secured | nsubj |
| 21 | secured | secure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 board | det |
| 23 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 board | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 surf | punct |
| 25 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 secured | obj |
| 26 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 board | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 floating | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | Vai | second | of Vai's board; ahead property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of board=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | catch | past | the chief | with one hand | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | ||||
| 3 | secure | past | the other | the surf board | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition board=Theme | ||||
| 4 | float | gerund | the surf board not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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