Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 44
Large numbers were killed while the eight still fought side by side apparently uninjured.
What happens: kill, fight · To what, where: Large numbers
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 | Large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 numbers | amod |
| 2 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 side | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 7 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 side | nummod |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 fought | advmod |
| 9 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 eight | acl |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 13 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 14 uninjured | advmod |
| 14 | uninjured | uninjured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | Large numbers | the eight side by side xcomp | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fight | participle | still | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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