Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 151
The unselfish rescue as well as the skill displayed in bringing the body to land, all in a few moments, won the approval of the judges.
Who acts: unselfish rescue, all · What happens: display, bring, land, win, approve · To what, where: body, approval, judges
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 (unselfish rescue, all), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rescue | det |
| 2 | unselfish | unselfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rescue | amod |
| 3 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 displayed | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 9 displayed | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 as | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skill | det |
| 8 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 displayed | nsubj |
| 9 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 bringing | mark |
| 11 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 displayed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bringing | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 land | mark |
| 15 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bringing | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 won | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 won | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 moments | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 moments | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 moments | amod |
| 21 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 all | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 all | punct |
| 23 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 displayed | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 approval | det |
| 25 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 won | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 judges | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 judges | det |
| 28 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 approval | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 displayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | display | past | the unselfish rescue | the skill nsubj | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | the unselfish rescue not said here | the body | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | land | to-infinitive | the unselfish rescue not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | win | past | all in a few moments | the approval of the judges | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | approve | the judges | nom approval «act transitive»: of=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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