Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 10
These two men were the second great factor in the consolidation of the islands.
Who acts: two men, islands · What happens: be, consolidate · To what, where: second great factor, consolidation
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men, islands), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 men | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 factor | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 factor | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 factor | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 factor | amod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 factor | amod |
| 8 | factor | factor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 consolidation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 consolidation | det |
| 11 | consolidation | consolidation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 factor | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 islands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 islands | det |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 consolidation | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 factor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this two men | the second great factor | the consolidation of the islands | tree rules | |||
| 2 | consolidate | the islands | nom consolidation «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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