Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 232
At last the Hawaiian warriors were forced to retreat to the camp of their king, where Kalaniopuu and his guard had waited for the result of the battle.
Who acts: Hawaiian warriors, Kalaniopuu · What happens: force, retreat, wait, result · To what, where: Hawaiian warriors, last, camp, battle
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 (Hawaiian warriors, Kalaniopuu), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 forced | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 warriors | det |
| 4 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warriors | amod |
| 5 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forced | aux:pass |
| 7 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 retreat | mark |
| 9 | retreat | retreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forced | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 camp | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 camp | det |
| 12 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 retreat | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 king | nmod:poss |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 camp | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waited | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 waited | advmod |
| 18 | Kalaniopuu | Kalaniopuu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 waited | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 guard | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 guard | nmod:poss |
| 21 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Kalaniopuu | conj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 waited | aux |
| 23 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 king | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 result | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 result | det |
| 26 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waited | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 battle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 battle | det |
| 29 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 result | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | the Hawaiian warriors | last | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | retreat | to-infinitive | the Hawaiian warriors not said here | the camp of stories's king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | wait | past · perfect | Kalaniopuu and Kalaniopuu's guard | for the result of the battle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | result | the battle | nom result «phenomenon 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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