Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 52
He could fight well, but could not run away as swiftly as his comrades.
Who acts: opposition · What happens: fight, not run away
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 (opposition), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fight | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fight | aux |
| 3 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 fight | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 run | cc |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 run | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 run | advmod |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fight | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 swiftly | advmod |
| 12 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 comrades | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 15 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 swiftly | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | could | opposition | well property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not run away | could | opposition not said here | away, swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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