Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 204
They evidently left before the regiment had been annihilated, for they were unnoticed until they had gone so far that pursuit was useless.
Who acts: men, pursuit · What happens: leave, annihilate, be, go · To what, where: regiment
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 (men, pursuit), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 annihilated | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 regiment | det |
| 6 | regiment | regiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 annihilated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 annihilated | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 annihilated | aux:pass |
| 9 | annihilated | annihilate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 left | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unnoticed | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 unnoticed | case |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 unnoticed | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 unnoticed | cop |
| 14 | unnoticed | unnoticed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 annihilated | parataxis |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 gone | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | aux |
| 18 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 unnoticed | advcl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 far | advmod |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 gone | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 useless | mark |
| 22 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 useless | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 useless | cop |
| 24 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 far | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | men = man | evidently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | annihilate | past · perfect · passive | the regiment | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | men = man | unnoticed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | men = man | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | pursuit | useless property | tree rules |
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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