Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 46
Eight men attacked an army and for some time were victorious in their onslaught.
Who acts: Eight men · What happens: attack, be · To what, where: army, onslaught
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 (Eight men), 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 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 men | nummod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attacked | nsubj |
| 3 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 army | det |
| 5 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attacked | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 victorious | cc |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 victorious | obl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 victorious | cop |
| 11 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 attacked | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 onslaught | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 onslaught | nmod:poss |
| 14 | onslaught | onslaught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 victorious | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past | Eight men | a army | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Eight men not said here | men's onslaught | time | victorious property | 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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