Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 42
But quickly the formidable character of the eight fighters was appreciated.
What happens: appreciate · To what, where: formidable character
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 appreciated | cc |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 character | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 character | det |
| 4 | formidable | formidable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 character | amod |
| 5 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appreciated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fighters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fighters | det |
| 8 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 fighters | nummod |
| 9 | fighters | fighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 character | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 appreciated | aux:pass |
| 11 | appreciated | appreciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 appreciated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appreciate | past · passive | the formidable character of the eight fighters | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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