Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 25
Executioners with sharp-edged clubs of heavy hardwood then struck down the prisoners as the boat was rushed to the sea.
Who acts: Executioners · What happens: edge, strike down, rush · To what, where: prisoners, boat, sea
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 (Executioners), 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 | Executioners | executioner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 clubs | case |
| 3 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 edged | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sharp | punct |
| 5 | edged | edge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 clubs | amod |
| 6 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Executioners | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hardwood | case |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hardwood | amod |
| 9 | hardwood | hardwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clubs | nmod |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 struck | advmod |
| 11 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 struck | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prisoners | det |
| 14 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 struck | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 rushed | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rushed | aux:pass |
| 19 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 struck | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | edge | participle | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | strike down | past | Executioners with edged clubs of heavy hardwood | the prisoners | then | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Patient | |||
| 3 | rush | past · passive | the boat | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to sea=Trajectory |
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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