Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 203
Two other valiant chiefs side by side fought their way through their enemies and escaped.
Who acts: chiefs side · What happens: fight, escape · To what, where: way, enemies
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 (chiefs side), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 chiefs | nummod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chiefs | amod |
| 3 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chiefs | amod |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 side | compound |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fought | nsubj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 side | nmod |
| 8 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fought | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 enemies | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 13 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fought | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 escaped | cc |
| 15 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fought | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | chiefs side by side | men's way | men's enemies | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | escape | past | chiefs side by side not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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