Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 228
There was a full day of savage fighting, marked by inhuman acts of awful brutality.
Who acts: full day, awful brutality · What happens: be, mark, act · To what, where: savage fighting
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 (full day, awful brutality), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fighting | case |
| 7 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fighting | amod |
| 8 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 marked | punct |
| 10 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fighting | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 acts | case |
| 12 | inhuman | inhuman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 acts | amod |
| 13 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 marked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 brutality | case |
| 15 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 brutality | amod |
| 16 | brutality | brutality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 acts | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a full day of savage fighting | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mark | participle | savage fighting not said here | by inhuman acts of awful brutality | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by act=Destination | ||||
| 3 | act | awful brutality | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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