Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 190
The broken ranks of the Alapa regiment were met by a constantly increasing host of enemies.
Who acts: constantly increasing host · What happens: meet · To what, where: broken 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 (constantly increasing host), 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 ranks | det |
| 2 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ranks | amod |
| 3 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 met | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 regiment | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 regiment | det |
| 6 | Alapa | Alapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 regiment | compound |
| 7 | regiment | regiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ranks | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | aux:pass |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 host | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 host | det |
| 12 | constantly | constantly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 host | amod |
| 13 | increasing | increasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 host | compound |
| 14 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 enemies | case |
| 16 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 host | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · passive | a constantly increasing host of enemies | the broken ranks of the Alapa regiment | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-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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