Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 35
“Into the valley of death rode the six hundred,” but this was not an impetuous torrent of six hundred mounted cavalry men sweeping through Russian ranks.
Who acts: this, hundred mounted cavalry men · What happens: ride, not be, mount, sweep · To what, where: six hundred, valley, impetuous torrent, Russian ranks
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 (this, hundred mounted cavalry men), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rode | punct |
| 2 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 4 valley | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 valley | det |
| 4 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 valley | nmod |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hundred | det |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 rode | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rode | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rode | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 torrent | cc |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 torrent | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 torrent | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 torrent | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 torrent | det |
| 18 | impetuous | impetuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 torrent | amod |
| 19 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 21 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 hundred | compound |
| 22 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 men | nummod |
| 23 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 men | amod |
| 24 | cavalry | cavalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 men | compound |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 torrent | nmod |
| 26 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 men | acl |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 ranks | case |
| 28 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ranks | amod |
| 29 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sweeping | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride in a quote | past | the six hundred | the valley of death | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme into valley=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | this | a impetuous torrent | of hundred mounted cavalry men | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mount | participle | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sweep | gerund | hundred mounted cavalry men not said here | Russian ranks | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through rank=Trajectory |
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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