Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 9
From each invasion he had returned laden with captives and spoil.
What happens: lade · To what, where: Kalaniopuu, invasion
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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 invasion | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 invasion | det |
| 3 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laden | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laden | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laden | aux |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 laden | aux:pass |
| 7 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 captives | case |
| 9 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laden | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spoil | cc |
| 11 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 captives | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lade | past · perfect · passive | Kalaniopuu | each invasion | with captives and spoil | 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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