Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 3
This was the first naval battle in which guns were the prominent weapons used by the Hawaiian chiefs.
Who acts: This, first naval battle · What happens: be, use · To what, where: first naval battle, prominent weapons
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 (This, first naval battle), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 battle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 battle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 battle | amod |
| 5 | naval | naval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 battle | amod |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 weapons | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 weapons | nsubj |
| 9 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 weapons | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 weapons | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 weapons | det |
| 12 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 weapons | amod |
| 13 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 battle | nmod |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 weapons | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 chiefs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chiefs | det |
| 17 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chiefs | amod |
| 18 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 used | obl:agent |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 battle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the first naval battle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the first naval battle | the prominent weapons | guns nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | use | participle | the prominent weapons not said here | the Hawaiian chiefs obl:agent | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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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