Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 67
The others were probably all killed in the destructive battles which soon followed.
What happens: kill, follow · To what, where: others, destructive battles
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 others | det |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 6 killed | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 killed | advmod |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 battles | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 battles | det |
| 9 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 battles | amod |
| 10 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 killed | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 followed | obj |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 followed | advmod |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 battles | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the others | the destructive battles | all, probably property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | past | the destructive battles | soon property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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