Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 36
It was a handful of eight against what was said to be a force of at least six hundred.
Who acts: six hundred · What happens: be, say · To what, where: handful, force · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (six hundred), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 handful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 handful | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 handful | det |
| 4 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eight | case |
| 6 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 handful | nmod |
| 7 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 10 said | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | aux:pass |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 handful | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 force | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 force | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 force | det |
| 14 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hundred | case |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 least | case |
| 17 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 six | nmod |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hundred | compound |
| 19 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 force | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 handful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | six hundred = hundred | a handful | of eight | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · passive | a handful | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a force | of six hundred | 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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