Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 15
Another blast, and there could be seen a number of gigantic slaves coming from the door of a stone temple not far away.
Who acts: blast, gigantic slaves · What happens: see, come · To what, where: number, door, blast
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 (blast, gigantic slaves), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 blast | det |
| 2 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seen | cc |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 seen | expl |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 blast | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 slaves | case |
| 12 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slaves | amod |
| 13 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 slaves | acl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coming | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 temple | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 temple | det |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 temple | compound |
| 21 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 door | nmod |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 away | advmod |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 coming | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could · passive | another blast not said here | a number of gigantic slaves | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: number=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | gigantic slaves not said here | the door of a stone temple | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from door=Initial_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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