Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 215
He was surrounded by a turbulent band of fighting chiefs.
Who acts: turbulent band · What happens: surround, fight · To what, where: king, chiefs
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 (turbulent band), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 3 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 band | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 band | det |
| 6 | turbulent | turbulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 band | amod |
| 7 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 fighting | mark |
| 9 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 band | acl |
| 10 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fighting | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past · passive | a turbulent band | king | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | a turbulent band not said here | chiefs | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Co-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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