Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 31
A quarrel arose and the Kauai men attempted to take by force the lands which their high chief claimed and had promised them.
Who acts: quarrel, Kauai men, high chief · What happens: arise, attempt, take, claim, promise · To what, where: lands, chiefs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (quarrel, Kauai men, high chief), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 quarrel | det |
| 2 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 attempted | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 6 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 men | compound |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attempted | nsubj |
| 8 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 attempted | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 force | case |
| 12 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lands | det |
| 14 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 claimed | obj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 chief | nmod:poss |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chief | amod |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 claimed | nsubj |
| 19 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lands | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 promised | cc |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 promised | aux |
| 22 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 claimed | ccomp |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 promised | iobj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a quarrel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | attempt | past | the Kauai men | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Kauai men not said here | the lands | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | |||
| 4 | claim speech: other | past | chiefs's high chief | the lands | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | chiefs = chief | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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