Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 80
The regimental uniform—light bamboo helmets, feather-coated and crested with brilliant plumes, added to the majestic appearance of these stalwart chiefs.
What happens: coat, crest, add · To what, where: light bamboo helmets, brilliant plumes, regimental uniform
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 uniform | det |
| 2 | regimental | regimental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 uniform | amod |
| 3 | uniform | uniform | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 helmets | punct |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helmets | compound |
| 6 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helmets | compound |
| 7 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uniform | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 coated | punct |
| 9 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coated | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 feather | punct |
| 11 | coated | coat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 helmets | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crested | cc |
| 13 | crested | crest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 coated | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 plumes | case |
| 15 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 plumes | amod |
| 16 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 crested | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 added | punct |
| 18 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 plumes | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 appearance | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 appearance | det |
| 21 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 appearance | amod |
| 22 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 added | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 chiefs | case |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 chiefs | det |
| 25 | stalwart | stalwart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chiefs | amod |
| 26 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 appearance | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uniform | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coat | participle | light bamboo helmets not said here | feather compound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crest | participle | with brilliant plumes | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | participle | brilliant plumes not said here | to the majestic appearance of this stalwart chiefs | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to appearance=Co-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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