Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 191
Soon the larger bodies were separated into small bands, each one hopelessly surrounded by picked warriors.
What happens: separate, surround, pick · To what, where: larger bodies, small bands, one
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: 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 separated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bodies | det |
| 3 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 bodies | amod |
| 4 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 separated | aux:pass |
| 6 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 bands | case |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bands | amod |
| 9 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 separated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bands | appos |
| 13 | hopelessly | hopelessly | ADV | _ | 14 surrounded | advmod |
| 14 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 one | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 warriors | case |
| 16 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 warriors | amod |
| 17 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | past · passive | the larger bodies | into small bands goal; soon property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme into band=Goal | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | each one not said here | picked warriors obl:agent; hopelessly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pick | participle | vn chew-39.2 «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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