Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 39
Side by side, striking and smiting all before them, the little band forced its way into the heart of the body of its foes.
Who acts: Side, little band · What happens: strike, smite, force · To what, where: way, heart, Side
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 (Side, little band), 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 | Side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Side | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 striking | punct |
| 5 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Side | acl:relcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 smiting | cc |
| 7 | smiting | smite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 striking | conj |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 smiting | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 smiting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 band | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 band | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 band | amod |
| 14 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Side | conj |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 band | acl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 body | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 body | det |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 foes | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 foes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 body | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Side | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | gerund | Side by side and the little band not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | smite | gerund | Side by side and the little band not said here | before Side | all property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | force | participle | the little band not said here | band's way | the heart of the body of body's foes | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/16/39/