Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 229
The native account of the battle says: “It was not a war characterised by deeds of princely courtesy.”
Who acts: native account, account · What happens: say, not be, characteris, account · To what, where: war, battle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (native account, account), 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 | 3 account | det |
| 2 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 account | amod |
| 3 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 battle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 account | nmod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 war | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 war | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 war | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 war | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 war | det |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 15 | characterised | characteris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 war | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 deeds | case |
| 17 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 characterised | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 courtesy | case |
| 19 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 courtesy | amod |
| 20 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deeds | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 war | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 war | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the native account of the battle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | past | account | a war | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | characteris in a quote | participle | a war not said here | by deeds of princely courtesy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | account | the battle | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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