Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 55
In a fit of anger he rushed upon the boy and slew him.
Who acts: Paao · What happens: rush, slay · To what, where: fit, Paao
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paao), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fit | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fit | det |
| 3 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 anger | case |
| 5 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fit | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rushed | nsubj |
| 7 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 boy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slew | cc |
| 12 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rushed | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slew | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | Paao | a fit of anger | upon the boy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fit=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | slay | past | Paao not said here | Paao | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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