Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 238
He was too heavily burdened with camp equipage and suffering men for immediate fight.
What happens: burden, suffer · To what, where: attack, men
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 burdened | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burdened | aux:pass |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 heavily | advmod |
| 4 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 5 burdened | advmod |
| 5 | burdened | burden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 equipage | case |
| 7 | camp | camp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 equipage | amod |
| 8 | equipage | equipage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burdened | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 suffering | cc |
| 10 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 burdened | conj |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 suffering | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fight | case |
| 13 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fight | amod |
| 14 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suffering | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burdened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burden | past · passive | attack | with camp equipage; heavily property | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with equipage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | suffer | gerund | men | for immediate fight | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus for fight=Attribute |
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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