Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 38
The conflict was hand to hand, and in that respect was favourable to the eight men well skilled in the use of spear and javelin.
Who acts: conflict · What happens: be, hand, skill, use · To what, where: hand, respect, eight men, use, spear
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 (conflict), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 conflict | det |
| 2 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hand | cop |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hand | mark |
| 6 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hand | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 favourable | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 favourable | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 respect | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 respect | det |
| 11 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 favourable | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 favourable | cop |
| 13 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 men | nummod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 favourable | obl |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 skilled | advmod |
| 19 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 men | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 use | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 use | det |
| 22 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skilled | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 spear | case |
| 24 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 use | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 javelin | cc |
| 26 | javelin | javelin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spear | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the conflict | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hand | to-infinitive | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the conflict not said here | that respect | to the eight men; favourable property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | skill | participle | the eight men not said here | the use of spear and javelin | well property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | use | spear and javelin | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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