Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 16
By combining forces it seemed easy to overthrow the high chief of Hawaii.
Who acts: it · What happens: combine, seem, overthrow · To what, where: high chief
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 (it), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 forces | case |
| 2 | combining | combine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 forces | amod |
| 3 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seemed | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 overthrow | mark |
| 8 | overthrow | overthrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 easy | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chief | amod |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overthrow | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Hawaii | case |
| 13 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 chief | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | combine | gerund | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | by combining forces; easy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | overthrow | to-infinitive | the high chief of Hawaii | tree rules |
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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