Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 222
The debris of battle, the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors inspired the great army to endeavour to avenge the recent defeat.
Who acts: debris · What happens: mutilate, inspire, endeavour, avenge · To what, where: great army, recent defeat
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 (debris), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 debris | det |
| 2 | debris | debris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inspired | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 battle | case |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 debris | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bodies | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bodies | det |
| 7 | mutilated | mutilate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bodies | amod |
| 8 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 battle | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hundreds | case |
| 10 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bodies | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 warriors | case |
| 12 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hundreds | nmod |
| 13 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 army | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 army | amod |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inspired | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 endeavour | mark |
| 18 | endeavour | endeavour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 inspired | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 avenge | mark |
| 20 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 endeavour | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 defeat | det |
| 22 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 defeat | amod |
| 23 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 avenge | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 inspired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutilate | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | inspire | past | the debris of battle and the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors | the great army | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus army=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | endeavour | to-infinitive | the debris of battle and the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | avenge | to-infinitive | the debris of battle and the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors not said here | the recent defeat | 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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