Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 35
With the insane inspiration of battle he made charge upon charge, as he pushed the confused mass of chiefs and people into an impetuous flight.
Who acts: giant, you · What happens: make, charge, push, inspire · To what, where: battle, charge, confused mass, impetuous flight
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 (giant, you), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 inspiration | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 inspiration | det |
| 3 | insane | insane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 inspiration | amod |
| 4 | inspiration | inspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 charge | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 battle | case |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inspiration | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 battle | acl:relcl |
| 9 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 charge | case |
| 11 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 charge | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pushed | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 pushed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pushed | nsubj |
| 15 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 charge | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mass | det |
| 17 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mass | amod |
| 18 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pushed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chiefs | case |
| 20 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mass | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 people | cc |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 chiefs | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 flight | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 flight | det |
| 25 | impetuous | impetuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flight | amod |
| 26 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pushed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 charge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | giant | battle not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Product | ||||
| 2 | charge | imperative | you not said here | charge | with the insane inspiration of battle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon charge=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | push | past | giant | the confused mass of chiefs and people | a impetuous flight | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mass=Theme into flight=Destination | |||
| 4 | inspire | battle | nom inspiration «cognition transitive»: of=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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