Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 14
Messengers were hurried to all parts of Oahu, and the warriors were hastily gathered together.
What happens: hurry, gather · To what, where: Messengers, parts, warriors
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. 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 | Messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hurried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | aux:pass |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 parts | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 parts | det |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hurried | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Oahu | case |
| 8 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 parts | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gathered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gathered | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 warriors | det |
| 12 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gathered | aux:pass |
| 14 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 15 gathered | advmod |
| 15 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hurried | conj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 gathered | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past · passive | Messengers | all parts of Oahu | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to part=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | gather | past · passive | the warriors | hastily, together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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