Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 60

Hundreds of workmen hewed and scraped and other hundreds polished, until at last a large fleet of canoes and a vast quantity of weapons were prepared.

Who acts: Hundreds, last large fleet · What happens: hew, scrape, polish, be · To what, where: workmen

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 (Hundreds, last large fleet), 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	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 polished	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 workmen	case
3	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hundreds	nmod
4	hewed	hew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 workmen	acl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scraped	cc
6	scraped	scrape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hewed	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hundreds	cc
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hundreds	amod
9	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hundreds	conj
10	polished	polish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 prepared	punct
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 prepared	mark
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fleet	amod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fleet	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fleet	amod
17	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 prepared	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 canoes	case
19	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fleet	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 quantity	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 quantity	det
22	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 quantity	amod
23	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fleet	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 weapons	case
25	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 quantity	nmod
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 prepared	cop
27	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 polished	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 polished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hew	participle		workmen not said here		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	scrape	participle				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	polish	past	Hundreds of workmen and other hundreds			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	a last large fleet of canoes and a vast quantity of weapons		prepared property	tree rules

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 60

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 60