Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 176
Often the beginning of a battle would be delayed by a series of single conflicts between challenging chiefs, as in the days of European knight-errantry.
Who acts: series · What happens: delay, begin · To what, where: beginning, 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: who acts (series), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 3 beginning | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beginning | det |
| 3 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 delayed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 battle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beginning | nmod |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 delayed | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 delayed | aux:pass |
| 9 | delayed | delay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 series | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 series | det |
| 12 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 delayed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 conflicts | case |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 conflicts | amod |
| 15 | conflicts | conflict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 series | nmod |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 chiefs | case |
| 17 | challenging | challenging | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chiefs | amod |
| 18 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 conflicts | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 days | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 days | det |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 delayed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 errantry | case |
| 25 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 errantry | amod |
| 26 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 errantry | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 knight | punct |
| 28 | errantry | errantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 days | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 delayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delay | would · passive | a series of single conflicts between challenging chiefs | the beginning of a battle | day | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent subject=Source | |||
| 2 | begin | a battle | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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