Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 17
In this company there were eight famous warriors, who seemed to think themselves invulnerable.
Who acts: eight famous warriors · What happens: be, seem, think · To what, where: company, 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: who acts (eight famous warriors), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 company | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 company | det |
| 3 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 were | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 warriors | nummod |
| 7 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 warriors | amod |
| 8 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 think | obj |
| 15 | invulnerable | invulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 think | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | eight famous warriors | this company; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Location | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | eight famous warriors | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | eight famous warriors not said here | warriors = warrior | invulnerable property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=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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