Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 50

He called upon the high chiefs of the various districts of his island for a more thorough preparation of men and war supplies, that with a new and larger army he might make complete subjugation of Maui.

Who acts: king · What happens: call, make, prepare, subjugate · To what, where: that, men, Maui · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 chiefs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chiefs	det
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chiefs	amod
6	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 districts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 districts	det
9	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 districts	amod
10	districts	district	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chiefs	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 island	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 island	nmod:poss
13	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 districts	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 preparation	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 preparation	det
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 thorough	advmod
17	thorough	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 preparation	amod
18	preparation	preparation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 island	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 men	case
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 preparation	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 supplies	cc
22	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 supplies	compound
23	supplies	supplies	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 men	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 that	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 make	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	31 army	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 army	det
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 army	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 army	cc
30	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 army	amod
31	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 make	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 make	aux
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	conj
35	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 subjugation	amod
36	subjugation	subjugation	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Maui	case
38	Maui	Maui	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 subjugation	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	king		upon the high chiefs of the various districts of king's island for a thorough preparation of men and war supplies	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	might	king	that	with a new larger army; complete subjugation of Maui obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subjugation=Product
3	prepare			men and war supplies		nom preparation «act transitive»: of=patient
4	subjugate			Maui		nom subjugation «state 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 50

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 50