Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 209
Great was the wailing among the royal chiefs of Hawaii and throughout the army.
What happens: be · To what, where: Great wailing
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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wailing | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wailing | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wailing | det |
| 4 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 chiefs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chiefs | amod |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wailing | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hawaii | case |
| 10 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chiefs | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 army | cc |
| 12 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 14 army | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 army | det |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Hawaii | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wailing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great wailing | among the royal chiefs of Hawaii and the army | 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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