Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 5
The decimation of the Hawaiian race began in these inter-island wars before the coming of the white race.
Who acts: decimation · What happens: begin, come, decimate · To what, where: island wars, Hawaiian race
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 (decimation), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 decimation | det |
| 2 | decimation | decimation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 race | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 race | det |
| 5 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 race | amod |
| 6 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decimation | nmod |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wars | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 wars | det |
| 10 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 island | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 inter | punct |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wars | compound |
| 13 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 began | obl |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 coming | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 coming | det |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 began | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 race | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 race | det |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 race | amod |
| 20 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the decimation of the Hawaiian race | this island wars | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | the decimation of the Hawaiian race not said here | of the white race | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of race=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | decimate | the Hawaiian race | nom decimation «act 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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