Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 79
The bird-hunters of each chief had scoured the forests for the rich crimson feathers of the iiwi, which were woven into glistening war capes.
Who acts: bird hunters · What happens: scour, weave, glisten · To what, where: forests, iiwi, war capes
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 (bird hunters), 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 | 4 hunters | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunters | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 bird | punct |
| 4 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scoured | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chief | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scoured | obl |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scoured | aux |
| 9 | scoured | scour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forests | det |
| 11 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scoured | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 feathers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feathers | det |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feathers | amod |
| 15 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feathers | compound |
| 16 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scoured | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 iiwi | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 iiwi | det |
| 19 | iiwi | iiwi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feathers | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 woven | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 woven | aux:pass |
| 23 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 iiwi | acl:relcl |
| 24 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 25 glistening | mark |
| 25 | glistening | glisten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 woven | advcl |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 capes | compound |
| 27 | capes | cape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 glistening | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 scoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scour | past · perfect | the bird hunters | the forests | of each chief; for the rich crimson feathers of the iiwi | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Location for feather=Theme | |||
| 2 | weave | past · passive | the iiwi | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | glisten | gerund | war capes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cape=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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