Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 55
The warriors went up into the mountains to find the Kauila—the spear tree—that they might cut down and dry the wood for spears and war clubs and daggers.
Who acts: warriors, mountains · What happens: go up, find, cut down, dry · To what, where: mountains, Kauila, wood
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 (warriors, mountains), 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 warriors | det |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountains | det |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Kauila | det |
| 11 | Kauila | Kauila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tree | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Kauila | appos |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 cut | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 cut | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cut | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cut | aux |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tree | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 cut | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dry | cc |
| 23 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 cut | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dry | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 spears | case |
| 27 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 dry | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 clubs | cc |
| 29 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 clubs | compound |
| 30 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spears | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 daggers | cc |
| 32 | daggers | dagger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 clubs | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the warriors | the mountains | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the warriors not said here | the Kauila | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kauila=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cut down | might | mountains = mountain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | dry | infinitive | mountains = mountain not said here | the wood | for spears and war clubs and daggers | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient wood=Result |
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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