Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 18
They had often faced danger and returned chanting victory.
What happens: face, return, chant · To what, where: warriors, victory
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 faced | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 faced | aux |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 faced | advmod |
| 4 | faced | face | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faced | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 returned | cc |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 faced | conj |
| 8 | chanting | chant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 returned | advcl |
| 9 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chanting | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 faced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | past · perfect · passive | warriors = warrior | danger xcomp; often property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | return | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | chant | gerund | victory | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Topic |
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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