Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 16
For a time victory was with the invaders; the Maui forces were not prepared for the onset, but warriors were hastily assembled from all parts of the island.
Who acts: invaders · What happens: be, not prepare, assemble · To what, where: Maui forces, warriors, parts
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (invaders), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 victory | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 victory | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 victory | compound |
| 4 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invaders | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 invaders | cop |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 invaders | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 invaders | det |
| 8 | invaders | invader | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 prepared | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forces | det |
| 11 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forces | compound |
| 12 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 prepared | aux:pass |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 prepared | advmod |
| 15 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 invaders | appos |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 onset | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 onset | det |
| 18 | onset | onset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prepared | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 assembled | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 assembled | cc |
| 21 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 assembled | aux:pass |
| 23 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 24 assembled | advmod |
| 24 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 invaders | acl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 parts | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 parts | det |
| 27 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 assembled | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 island | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 island | det |
| 30 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 parts | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 invaders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | with the invaders; for a time victory | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not prepare | past · passive | the Maui forces | for the onset | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for onset=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | assemble | past · passive | the invaders not said here | warriors | all parts of the island | hastily property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: subject=Product from part=Material |
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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