Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 171
Suddenly their Maui foe disappeared, and in front and rear and on every side rose up hundreds of warriors from Oahu—strangers to the Alapa chiefs.
Who acts: Maui foe · What happens: disappear, rise up · To what, where: strangers, hundreds
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 (Maui foe), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 disappeared | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 foe | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 foe | compound |
| 4 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disappeared | nsubj |
| 5 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rose | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rear | cc |
| 11 | rear | rear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 front | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 side | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 front | conj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappeared | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 rose | compound:prt |
| 18 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rose | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 warriors | case |
| 20 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hundreds | nmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Oahu | case |
| 22 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | obl |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 strangers | punct |
| 24 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 disappeared | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 chiefs | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chiefs | det |
| 27 | Alapa | Alapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 chiefs | compound |
| 28 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 strangers | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | forces's Maui foe | strangers to the Alapa chiefs | suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | rise up | past | forces's Maui foe not said here | hundreds of warriors | from Oahu; in front and every side | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hundred=Extent in front=Attribute from oahu=Initial_State |
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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