Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 237
The attack had been made, and the ragged remnants of a vanquished army had come back.
Who acts: ragged remnants · What happens: make, vanquish, come back · To what, where: attack
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 (ragged remnants), 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 | 2 attack | det |
| 2 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 remnants | det |
| 9 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remnants | amod |
| 10 | remnants | remnant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 army | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 army | det |
| 13 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 army | amod |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remnants | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 made | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | the attack | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | vanquish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come back | past · perfect | the ragged remnants of a vanquished army | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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