Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 241

There had been too many past personalities between them, and she had evidently been a vigorous endorser of her husband’s invasions into her old homeland.

Who acts: queen, husband · What happens: have, be, invade · To what, where: old homeland, many past personalities, vigorous endorser

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 (queen, husband), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 had	expl
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 personalities	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 personalities	amod
6	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 personalities	amod
7	personalities	personality	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 personalities	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 endorser	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 endorser	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 endorser	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 endorser	aux
14	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	18 endorser	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 endorser	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 endorser	det
17	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 endorser	amod
18	endorser	endorser	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 invasions	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 invasions	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 husband	case
23	invasions	invasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 endorser	nmod
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 homeland	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 homeland	nmod:poss
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 homeland	amod
27	homeland	homeland	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past			queen's old homeland; there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle		many past personalities		between personalities = personality	tree rules
3	is a	past · perfect	queen	a vigorous endorser		of queen's husband's invasions; evidently property	tree rules
4	invade		queen's husband				nom invasion «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 241

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 241