Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 178
Some giant chief with marked helmet towered above his fellows and was the centre around which his followers could gather.
Who acts: followers · What happens: mark, tower, be, gather · To what, where: marked helmet, centre, giant chief
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 (followers), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 helmet | case |
| 5 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 helmet | amod |
| 6 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | nmod |
| 7 | towered | tower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 helmet | acl |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 10 fellows | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fellows | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 towered | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 centre | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 centre | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 centre | det |
| 14 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | conj |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 gather | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 followers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gather | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 gather | aux |
| 20 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 centre | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | tower | participle | marked helmet not said here | above series's fellows | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above fellow=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the centre | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gather | could | series's followers | the centre | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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