Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 62
Large quantities of fish were caught and dried for the commissary department of the new army.
What happens: catch, dry · To what, where: Large quantities
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: 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 | Large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 quantities | amod |
| 2 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fish | case |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 quantities | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | aux:pass |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dried | cc |
| 8 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 caught | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 department | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 department | det |
| 11 | commissary | commissary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 department | compound |
| 12 | department | department | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dried | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 army | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 army | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 army | amod |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 department | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | Large quantities of fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dry | participle | for the commissary department of the new army | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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