Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 54
The chiefs devoted all the energies of their districts to the preparation for the new war.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: devote · To what, where: energies, preparation
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 (chiefs), 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 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 devoted | nsubj |
| 3 | devoted | devote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 energies | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 energies | det |
| 6 | energies | energy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 devoted | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 districts | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 districts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 energies | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 preparation | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 preparation | det |
| 12 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 devoted | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 war | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 war | amod |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 devoted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 devoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devote | past | the chiefs | all energies of energies's districts | to the preparation goal; for the new war | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent energy=Theme to preparation=Goal |
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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