Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 2
The Red Mouth Gun is the name given by the Hawaiians to the great canoe battle fought off Waipio, Hawaii, in the year 1791, according to Fornander.
Who acts: Red Mouth Gun, name · What happens: be, give, fight off, accord · To what, where: name, great canoe battle, Waipio
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 (Red Mouth Gun, name), 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 | 4 Gun | det |
| 2 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gun | flat |
| 3 | Mouth | Mouth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gun | compound |
| 4 | Gun | Gun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fought | nsubj |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 name | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Hawaiians | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hawaiians | det |
| 11 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 given | obl:agent |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 battle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 battle | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 battle | amod |
| 15 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 battle | compound |
| 16 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 17 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 Waipio | case |
| 19 | Waipio | Waipio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Hawaii | punct |
| 21 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Waipio | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 year | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 year | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 year | det |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fought | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | 1791 | 1791 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 year | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Fornander | punct |
| 28 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 Fornander | case |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 according | fixed |
| 30 | Fornander | Fornander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fought | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Red Mouth Gun | the name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the name not said here | the great canoe battle | the Hawaiians obl:agent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to battle=Recipient | |||
| 3 | fight off | past | the name | Waipio | year | accord Fornander | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waipio=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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