Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 86
Then came the “Battle of the Sand-Hills” below Wailuku and the defeat of the forces of the king of Hawaii.
What happens: come, defeat · To what, where: Battle, forces
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Battle | det |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Battle | punct |
| 5 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hills | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hills | det |
| 8 | Sand | Sand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hills | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sand | punct |
| 10 | Hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Battle | nmod |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hills | punct |
| 12 | below | below | ADP | _ | 13 Wailuku | case |
| 13 | Wailuku | Wailuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hills | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 defeat | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 defeat | det |
| 16 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Wailuku | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 forces | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forces | det |
| 19 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 defeat | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 king | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forces | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Hawaii | case |
| 24 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 king | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Battle of the Sand Hills below Wailuku and the defeat of the forces of the king of Hawaii | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location battle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | defeat | the forces of the king of Hawaii | nom defeat «event transitive»: of=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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