Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 50
After an awful struggle the opposition was broken down and the eight leaped over the piles of the slain and fled toward the mountains.
Who acts: eight · What happens: break down, leap, flee · To what, where: opposition, piles, mountains
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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 struggle | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 struggle | det |
| 3 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 struggle | amod |
| 4 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broken | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 opposition | det |
| 6 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broken | aux:pass |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 broken | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 leaped | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eight | det |
| 12 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 leaped | nsubj |
| 13 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 broken | conj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 piles | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 piles | det |
| 16 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leaped | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 slain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 slain | det |
| 19 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piles | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fled | cc |
| 21 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broken | conj |
| 22 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 24 mountains | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mountains | det |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break down | past · passive | the opposition | after a awful struggle | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leap | participle | the eight | the piles of the slain | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pile=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | the mountains | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward mountain=Initial_Location |
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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