Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 21
Therefore each man was laden with his spear, club, and javelins.
What happens: lade · To what, where: man
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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 laden | advmod |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laden | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laden | aux:pass |
| 5 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 spear | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 spear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laden | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 club | punct |
| 10 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spear | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 javelins | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 javelins | cc |
| 13 | javelins | javelin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laden | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lade | past · passive | each man | with Word's spear and club; javelins obl; therefore property | 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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