Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 187
The blazing tropical sun filled the struggling warriors with raging thirst, and the waters of the Wai-luku were still nearly a mile away.
Who acts: blazing tropical sun, waters · What happens: blaze, fill, struggle, rage, be · To what, where: struggling warriors, thirst, mile
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 (blazing tropical sun, waters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 2 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sun | amod |
| 3 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sun | amod |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 warriors | det |
| 7 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 warriors | amod |
| 8 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 filled | obj |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 raging | mark |
| 10 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 filled | advcl |
| 11 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raging | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mile | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mile | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waters | det |
| 15 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 mile | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Wai | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wai | det |
| 18 | Wai | Wai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 waters | nmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wai | punct |
| 20 | luku | luku | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 Wai | dep |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 mile | cop |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 mile | advmod |
| 23 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 25 mile | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mile | det |
| 25 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | parataxis |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 mile | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blaze | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | fill | past | the blazing tropical sun | the struggling warriors | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent warrior=Patient | ||||
| 3 | struggle | gerund | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | rage | gerund | the blazing tropical sun not said here | thirst | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location thirst=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the waters of the Wai | a mile | still | away, nearly property | 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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