Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 99
The champion wrestler from Matavia Bay very slowly walked into the arena, trying to appear utterly oblivious of his antagonist.
Who acts: champion wrestler · What happens: walk, try, appear · To what, where: arena
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 (champion wrestler), 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 wrestler | det |
| 2 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrestler | compound |
| 3 | wrestler | wrestler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Bay | case |
| 5 | Matavia | Matavia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bay | compound |
| 6 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wrestler | nmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 slowly | advmod |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 walked | advmod |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 arena | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 arena | det |
| 12 | arena | arena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trying | punct |
| 14 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 walked | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 appear | mark |
| 16 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 trying | xcomp |
| 17 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 18 oblivious | advmod |
| 18 | oblivious | oblivious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 appear | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 antagonist | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 antagonist | nmod:poss |
| 21 | antagonist | antagonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 oblivious | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the champion wrestler from Matavia Bay | into the arena result; slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into arena=Result | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | the champion wrestler from Matavia Bay not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | appear not said to happen | to-infinitive | the champion wrestler from Matavia Bay not said here | oblivious property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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