Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 69
The large number of young chiefs throughout the island was organised into three bands.
What happens: organise · To what, where: large number, three bands
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 organised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 chiefs | case |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chiefs | amod |
| 6 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 7 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 9 island | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 island | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chiefs | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 organised | aux:pass |
| 11 | organised | organise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bands | case |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 bands | nummod |
| 14 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 organised | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 organised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | organise | past · passive | the large number of young chiefs throughout the island | three bands | 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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