Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 85
He felt a breeze that seemed to him in some way different from the ordinary sea-breezes.
Who acts: action, breeze · What happens: feel, seem · To what, where: breeze, action
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 (action, breeze), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 breeze | det |
| 4 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 breeze | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seemed | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | obl |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 breezes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 breezes | det |
| 15 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 breezes | amod |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breezes | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 sea | punct |
| 18 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 different | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | action | a breeze | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breeze=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | a breeze | action | in some way | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in way=Attribute |
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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