Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 216
They waged war among themselves when they could not attack the neighbouring islands.
Who acts: bands · What happens: wage, not attack · To what, where: war, neighbouring islands
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 (bands), 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 | 2 waged | nsubj |
| 2 | waged | wage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waged | obj |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 themselves | case |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 waged | obl |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 attack | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 attack | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 attack | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 attack | advmod |
| 10 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 waged | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 islands | det |
| 12 | neighbouring | neighbouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 islands | compound |
| 13 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 attack | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wage | past | bands = band | war | among bands = band | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not attack | could | bands = band | the neighbouring islands | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient |
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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