Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 173
The wily king had made thorough preparation to catch his enemies “in a net.”
What happens: make, catch · To what, where: wily king, enemies
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: 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 king | det |
| 2 | wily | wily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | thorough | thorough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 preparation | amod |
| 7 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 catch | mark |
| 9 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 11 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 catch | obj |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 net | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 net | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 net | det |
| 15 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 net | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 net | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | the wily king | thorough preparation obj; a net parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | king's enemies | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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