Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 19
The old king had been taken to the coast and placed in his royal double canoe ready to escape if his army could not win the day.
Who acts: army · What happens: take, place, escape, not win · To what, where: old king, coast, royal double canoe
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 (army), 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coast | det |
| 9 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 placed | cc |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 taken | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 canoe | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 canoe | amod |
| 15 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 canoe | amod |
| 16 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obl |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 canoe | amod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 escape | mark |
| 19 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ready | xcomp |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 win | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 army | nmod:poss |
| 22 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 win | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 win | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 win | advmod |
| 25 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 escape | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 win | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | the old king | the coast | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to coast=Destination | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | king's royal double canoe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in canoe=Destination | |||||
| 3 | escape | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not win a condition, not said to happen | could | king's army | day | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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