Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 182
But when they were drawn into conflict in the sand hills their ranks were broken.
Who acts: sand hills · What happens: draw, break · To what, where: contests, conflict, ranks
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 (sand hills), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 drawn | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 drawn | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drawn | aux:pass |
| 5 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 conflict | case |
| 7 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hills | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hills | det |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hills | compound |
| 11 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drawn | obl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ranks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 broken | aux:pass |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hills | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | contests = contest | conflict | in the sand hills | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in hill=Destination | |||
| 2 | break | past · passive | the sand hills not said here | contests's ranks | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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