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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 261

In 1779 the coming of Captain Cook changed the course of action and gave the people new things to think about, until Kamehameha secured white men’s arms and conquered all the islands.

Who acts: coming, Kamehameha · What happens: come, change, give, think about, secure, conquer · To what, where: course, 1779, new things, people, arms, islands

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 (coming, Kamehameha), 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

caseobldetcsubjcaseoblflatdetobjcasenmodccconjdetiobjamodobjmarkacladvmodpunctmarknsubjparataxisamodnmod:posscaseobjccconjdet:predetdetobjpunctrootInADP1779NUMtheDETcomingVERBofADPCaptainPROPNCookPROPNchangedVERBtheDETcourseNOUNofADPactionNOUNandCCONJgaveVERBtheDETpeopleNOUNnewADJthingsNOUNtoPARTthinkVERBaboutADV,PUNCTuntilSCONJKamehamehaPROPNsecuredVERBwhiteADJmenNOUN’sPARTarmsNOUNandCCONJconqueredVERBallDETtheDETislandsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_2 1779case
217791779NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card8 changedobl
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 changeddet
4comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger8 changedcsubj
5ofofADP_6 Captaincase
6CaptainCaptainPROPNNumber=Sing4 comingobl
7CookCookPROPNNumber=Sing6 Captainflat
8changedchangeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 coursedet
10coursecourseNOUNNumber=Sing8 changedobj
11ofofADP_12 actioncase
12actionactionNOUNNumber=Sing10 coursenmod
13andandCCONJ_14 gavecc
14gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 changedconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 peopledet
16peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur14 gaveiobj
17newnewADJDegree=Pos18 thingsamod
18thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur14 gaveobj
19totoPART_20 thinkmark
20thinkthinkVERBVerbForm=Inf18 thingsacl
21aboutaboutADV_20 thinkadvmod
22,,PUNCT_25 securedpunct
23untiluntilSCONJ_25 securedmark
24KamehamehaKamehamehaPROPNNumber=Sing25 securednsubj
25securedsecureVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 gaveparataxis
26whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos27 menamod
27menmanNOUNNumber=Plur29 armsnmod:poss
28’s'sPART_27 mencase
29armsarmNOUNNumber=Plur25 securedobj
30andandCCONJ_31 conqueredcc
31conqueredconquerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 securedconj
32allallDETPronType=Tot34 islandsdet:predet
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 islandsdet
34islandsislandNOUNNumber=Plur31 conqueredobj
35..PUNCT_8 changedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comegerundof Captainvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of captain=Initial_Location
2changepastcomingthe course of action1779vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient
3givepastcoming not said herenew thingsthe peoplevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient thing=Theme
4think about speech: otherto-infinitivecoming not said herenew things not said hereabout propertyvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5securepastKamehamehawhite men's armsvn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition arm=Theme
6conquerpastKamehameha not said hereall islandsvn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=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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