Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 218
Before day began to dawn the camp was roused for action.
What happens: begin, rouse · To what, where: dawn
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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 day | case |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 roused | mark |
| 5 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 camp | det |
| 7 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 roused | aux:pass |
| 9 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 began | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 action | case |
| 11 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roused | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rouse | past · passive | dawn | for action; the camp nsubj:pass | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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