Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 226
Each step forward was fully earned.
What happens: earn · To what, where: step
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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 step | det |
| 2 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 earned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 step | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 earned | aux:pass |
| 5 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 6 earned | advmod |
| 6 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 earned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | past · passive | each step | fully property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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