Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 84
The Alapa regiment alone numbered about eight hundred of the finest and bravest chiefs of the island of Hawaii.
Who acts: Alapa regiment · What happens: number · To what, where: eight hundred, Alapa regiment
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 (Alapa regiment), 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 regiment | det |
| 2 | Alapa | Alapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 regiment | compound |
| 3 | regiment | regiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 numbered | advmod |
| 5 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 regiment | acl |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 hundred | advmod |
| 7 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hundred | compound |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 numbered | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chiefs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chiefs | det |
| 11 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 chiefs | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bravest | cc |
| 13 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 finest | conj |
| 14 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hundred | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chiefs | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Hawaii | case |
| 19 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 island | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 regiment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | number | participle | the Alapa regiment not said here | eight hundred of the finest chiefs of the island of Hawaii | alone property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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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