Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 26
The chiefs had massed their forces on Maui.
What happens: mass · To what, where: chiefs, Maui
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: 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 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 massed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 massed | aux |
| 4 | massed | mass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 forces | nmod:poss |
| 6 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 massed | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Maui | case |
| 8 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 massed | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 massed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mass | past · perfect · passive | the chiefs | Maui | chiefs's forces obj | 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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