Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 52
In England, King George was calling upon Parliament for advice and funds wherewith to subdue the blood brothers in America.
Who acts: George · What happens: call, fund, subdue · To what, where: England, blood brothers, America · 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 (George), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 England | case |
| 2 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 England | punct |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 George | nmod:desc |
| 5 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 calling | aux |
| 7 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 Parliament | case |
| 9 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 advice | case |
| 11 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 funds | cc |
| 13 | funds | fund | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 calling | conj |
| 14 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 subdue | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 subdue | mark |
| 16 | subdue | subdue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 funds | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brothers | det |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brothers | compound |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 subdue | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 America | case |
| 21 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 brothers | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 calling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · progressive | George King | England | upon Parliament; for advice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for advice=Recipient | |||
| 2 | fund | present | George King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | subdue | to-infinitive | George King not said here | the blood brothers | America | wherewith property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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