Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 257
Then both wailed over the troubles which had brought them together, and over the deaths among their followers.
What happens: wail, bring · To what, where: troubles
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wailed | advmod |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 wailed | advmod |
| 3 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 troubles | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 troubles | det |
| 6 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wailed | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 troubles | acl:relcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 deaths | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 deaths | cc |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 deaths | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 deaths | det |
| 16 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wailed | obl |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 followers | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 followers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 deaths | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wail | past | the troubles | then | over the deaths among troubles's followers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over trouble=Location | |||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the troubles | together property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination they=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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