Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 23
Heavy blows from war clubs and spears beat down the weapons of the stalwart warrior and rained blows upon his head and body.
Who acts: Heavy, spears · What happens: blow, beat down · To what, where: weapons
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 (Heavy, spears), 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 | Heavy | heavy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blows | nsubj |
| 2 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 clubs | case |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clubs | compound |
| 5 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blows | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beat | cc |
| 7 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beat | nsubj |
| 8 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 blows | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 weapons | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weapons | det |
| 11 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beat | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 warrior | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 warrior | det |
| 14 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 warrior | compound |
| 15 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weapons | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blows | cc |
| 17 | rained | rain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 blows | aux |
| 18 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 beat | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blows | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 body | cc |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 head | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | Heavy | from war clubs | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from club=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | beat down | present | spears | the weapons of the stalwart warrior | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location weapon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | blow | past | spears not said here | upon Heavy's head and body | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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