Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 236
She had come to share in the victory over her brother and assist in the pacification of her former friends.
Who acts: name · What happens: come, share, pacify · To what, where: victory, former friends
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 (name), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 share | mark |
| 5 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 victory | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 victory | det |
| 8 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 share | obl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 brother | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 share | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 assist | cc |
| 13 | assist | assist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brother | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pacification | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pacification | det |
| 16 | pacification | pacification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 share | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 19 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friends | amod |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pacification | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | share | to-infinitive | name not said here | the victory | over name's brother and assist; in the pacification of name's former friends | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pacify | name's former friends | nom pacification «act 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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