Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 198
This last warrior, Ke-awe-hano—“the silent supporter”—noted for his valour, fought to the last and then was beaten down and captured.
Who acts: last warrior · What happens: note, fight, beat down, capture
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 (last warrior), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 warrior | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warrior | amod |
| 3 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 noted | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hano | punct |
| 5 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hano | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ke | punct |
| 7 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hano | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 awe | punct |
| 9 | hano | hano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warrior | conj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 supporter | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 supporter | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 supporter | det |
| 13 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 supporter | amod |
| 14 | supporter | supporter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warrior | appos |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 supporter | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 noted | punct |
| 17 | noted | note | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 valour | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 valour | nmod:poss |
| 20 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 noted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fought | punct |
| 22 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 noted | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 last | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 last | det |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fought | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 beaten | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 beaten | advmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 beaten | aux:pass |
| 29 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fought | conj |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 beaten | compound:prt |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 captured | cc |
| 32 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 beaten | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 noted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | past | this last warrior and Ke awe hano | for warrior's valour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | this last warrior and Ke awe hano not said here | to the last | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | beat down | past · passive | this last warrior and Ke awe hano not said here | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | capture | participle | this last warrior and Ke awe hano not said here | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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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