Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 51
This was in 1775, at the same time that in America the “Boston tea party” and Battle of Bunker’s Hill were being followed by the struggle for freedom on the part of England’s colonies.
Who acts: This, struggle · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: 1775, Boston tea party, America
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 (This, struggle), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 1775 | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 1775 | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1775 | case |
| 4 | 1775 | 1775 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 1775 | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 followed | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 America | case |
| 12 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 followed | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 party | det |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 party | punct |
| 15 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 party | compound |
| 16 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 party | compound |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 party | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Battle | cc |
| 20 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 party | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Hill | case |
| 22 | Bunker | Bunker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Hill | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Bunker | case |
| 24 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Battle | nmod |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 followed | aux:pass |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 followed | aux:pass |
| 27 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 struggle | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 struggle | det |
| 30 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 followed | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 freedom | case |
| 32 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 struggle | nmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 part | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 part | det |
| 35 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 freedom | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 colonies | case |
| 37 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 colonies | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 England | case |
| 39 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 part | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 1775 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | 1775 | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | past · passive | the struggle for freedom on the part of England's colonies | the Boston tea party and Battle of Bunker's Hill | America | the same time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme that=Attribute |
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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