Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 47

But the force around them was continually receiving additions, and an overwhelming body of men was slowly crowding over the dead and dying and preparing to crush them by weight of numbers.

Who acts: force, overwhelming body · What happens: receive, crowd, die, prepare, crush · To what, where: additions, dead, men

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 (force, overwhelming body), 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	_	8 receiving	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 force	det
3	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 receiving	nsubj
4	around	around	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 force	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 receiving	aux
7	continually	continually	ADV	_	8 receiving	advmod
8	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	additions	addition	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 receiving	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crowding	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crowding	cc
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 body	det
13	overwhelming	overwhelming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 body	amod
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crowding	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 men	case
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 body	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 crowding	aux
18	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	19 crowding	advmod
19	crowding	crowd	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 receiving	parataxis
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 dead	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dead	det
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crowding	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dying	cc
24	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 crowding	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 preparing	cc
26	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 crowding	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 crush	mark
28	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 preparing	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 crush	obj
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 weight	case
31	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crush	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 numbers	case
33	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 weight	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 receiving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past · progressive	the force around men	additions		continually property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent addition=Theme
2	crowd	past · progressive	a overwhelming body of men		the dead	slowly property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over dead=Destination
3	die	gerund	a overwhelming body of men not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	prepare	gerund	a overwhelming body of men not said here				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
5	crush not said to happen	to-infinitive	a overwhelming body of men not said here	men = man		by weight of numbers	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 47