Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 13
During the year 1790 he overran Maui and Molokai and subdued a serious rebellion on his own island, Hawaii.
Who acts: man · What happens: overrun, subdue · To what, where: Maui, serious rebellion, own island
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 (man), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overran | obl |
| 4 | 1790 | 1790 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 year | flat |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 overran | nsubj |
| 6 | overran | overrun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 overran | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Molokai | cc |
| 9 | Molokai | Molokai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Maui | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 subdued | cc |
| 11 | subdued | subdue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 overran | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rebellion | det |
| 13 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rebellion | amod |
| 14 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 subdued | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 island | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 island | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 island | amod |
| 18 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 subdued | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hawaii | punct |
| 20 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 island | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 overran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overrun | past | man | Maui and Molokai | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | subdue | past | man not said here | a serious rebellion | man's own island | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rebellion=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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