Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 227
Each sand hill passed was almost as much of a defeat as a victory.
Who acts: sand hill · What happens: pass, be
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 (sand hill), 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 | 3 hill | det |
| 2 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hill | compound |
| 3 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 much | cop |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 defeat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 defeat | det |
| 11 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 much | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 victory | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 victory | det |
| 14 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | each sand hill | as a victory | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | of a defeat; almost, much property | 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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