Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 184

From every wind-raised hill the Oahu men hurled heavy stones upon the plumed helmets beneath them, and thrust long spears into those who stormed the hillsides.

Who acts: Oahu men · What happens: raise, hurl, plume, storm · To what, where: heavy stones, raised hill, hillsides

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 (Oahu men), 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	From	from	ADP	_	6 hill	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hill	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raised	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 wind	punct
5	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hill	amod
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hurled	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 men	compound
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hurled	nsubj
10	hurled	hurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stones	amod
12	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hurled	obj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 helmets	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 helmets	det
15	plumed	plume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 helmets	amod
16	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hurled	obl
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 helmets	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spears	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spears	cc
21	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spears	compound
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thrust	amod
23	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hurled	obl
24	into	into	ADP	_	25 those	case
25	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 spears	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 stormed	nsubj
27	stormed	storm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 those	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hillsides	det
29	hillsides	hillside	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stormed	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hurled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	participle				wind compound	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hurl	past	the Oahu men	heavy stones	every raised hill	upon the plumed helmets beneath ranks; thrust spears into those obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from hill=Initial_Location
3	plume	participle					tree rules
4	storm	past		the hillsides		who nsubj	tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 184

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 184