Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 5
This was probably the best stroke of diplomacy exercised by him during all his great work of welding the scattered islands into a united kingdom.
Who acts: This, great work, Kaiana · What happens: be, exercise, weld, work · To what, where: best stroke, scattered islands
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, great work, Kaiana), 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 stroke | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stroke | cop |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 6 stroke | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stroke | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 stroke | amod |
| 6 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 diplomacy | case |
| 8 | diplomacy | diplomacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stroke | nmod |
| 9 | exercised | exercise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stroke | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exercised | obl |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 16 work | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 work | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 work | nmod:poss |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 work | amod |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exercised | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 welding | mark |
| 18 | welding | weld | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 work | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 islands | det |
| 20 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 21 islands | amod |
| 21 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 welding | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 kingdom | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 kingdom | det |
| 24 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 kingdom | amod |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 welding | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stroke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the best stroke | of diplomacy; probably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | exercise | participle | the best stroke not said here | during Kaiana's great work | by Kaiana | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | weld | gerund | Kaiana's great work not said here | the scattered islands | into a united kingdom | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent island=Patient into kingdom=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | work | Kaiana | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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