Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 162
Sometimes this resulted in a mortifying overthrow of the rider at the first leap of the sled downward.
Who acts: this · What happens: result, mortify, overthrow, leap · To what, where: mortifying overthrow, rider, sled
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 (this), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 resulted | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 resulted | nsubj |
| 3 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 overthrow | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 overthrow | det |
| 6 | mortifying | mortify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 overthrow | amod |
| 7 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 resulted | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rider | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rider | det |
| 10 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overthrow | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 leap | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 leap | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 leap | amod |
| 14 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 resulted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sled | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sled | det |
| 17 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leap | nmod |
| 18 | downward | downward | ADV | _ | 3 resulted | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | participle | this | a mortifying overthrow of the rider | at the first leap of the sled; downward, sometimes property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in overthrow=Location | |||
| 2 | mortify | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | overthrow | the rider | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | leap | the sled | nom leap «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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