Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 7
For fifteen years the Maui chiefs were not able to recapture it.
Who acts: Maui chiefs · What happens: not be, recapture · To what, where: chief
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 (Maui 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 able | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chiefs | det |
| 5 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chiefs | compound |
| 6 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 able | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 able | advmod |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 recapture | mark |
| 11 | recapture | recapture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 recapture | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Maui chiefs | year | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | recapture | to-infinitive | the Maui chiefs not said here | chief | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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