Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 80
They would offer fleets of canoes filled with warriors to aid him in his battles with the king of Hawaii.
Who acts: things, King · What happens: offer, fill, aid, battle · To what, where: fleets, canoes, King, battles
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, King), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offer | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 offer | aux |
| 3 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | fleets | fleet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 offer | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 canoes | case |
| 6 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fleets | nmod |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 canoes | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 warriors | case |
| 9 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 filled | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 aid | mark |
| 11 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 filled | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 aid | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 battles | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 battles | nmod:poss |
| 15 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 aid | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 battles | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Hawaii | case |
| 20 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | would | things = thing | fleets of canoes | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | canoes not said here | with warriors | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with warrior=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | aid | to-infinitive | King | King's battles with the king of Hawaii | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | battle | King | with the king of Hawaii | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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