Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 175
In battle, dependence was placed upon the strong arm rather than in cunning wit.
What happens: place · To what, where: dependence, battle
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 battle | case |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 battle | punct |
| 4 | dependence | dependence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | aux:pass |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 arm | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arm | det |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 arm | amod |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 wit | cc |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 rather | fixed |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wit | case |
| 14 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wit | compound |
| 15 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arm | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | dependence | battle | upon the strong arm rather cunning wit | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon arm=Destination |
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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