Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 33
Several hundred warriors from Maui were stationed near this temple at the foot of Diamond Head.
What happens: station · To what, where: Several hundred warriors, temple
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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warriors | amod |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 warriors | nummod |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stationed | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Maui | case |
| 5 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 warriors | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stationed | aux:pass |
| 7 | stationed | station | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 temple | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 temple | det |
| 10 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stationed | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 foot | det |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 temple | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Head | case |
| 15 | Diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Head | compound |
| 16 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 foot | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stationed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | past · passive | Several hundred warriors from Maui | this temple at the foot of Diamond Head | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme near temple=Destination |
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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