Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 8
During these years Kalaniopuu had frequently gathered his best company of warriors and attacked the Maui seacoast.
What happens: gather, attack · To what, where: Kalaniopuu, Maui seacoast
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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gathered | obl |
| 4 | Kalaniopuu | Kalaniopuu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gathered | aux |
| 6 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 7 gathered | advmod |
| 7 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 company | nmod:poss |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 company | amod |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gathered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 warriors | case |
| 12 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 company | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 attacked | cc |
| 14 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gathered | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seacoast | det |
| 16 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 seacoast | compound |
| 17 | seacoast | seacoast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attacked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · perfect · passive | Kalaniopuu | year | Kalaniopuu's best company of warriors obj; frequently property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary company=Theme | |||
| 2 | attack | past | the Maui seacoast | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seacoast=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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