Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 168
There was obstinate resistance, but the onset of the Hawaiian chiefs was irresistible.
Who acts: obstinate resistance, onset · What happens: be
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 (obstinate resistance, onset), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 resistance | amod |
| 4 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 irresistible | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 irresistible | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 onset | det |
| 8 | onset | onset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 irresistible | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 chiefs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chiefs | det |
| 11 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chiefs | amod |
| 12 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 onset | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 irresistible | cop |
| 14 | irresistible | irresistible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | obstinate resistance | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the onset of the Hawaiian chiefs | irresistible property | tree rules |
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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