Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 58
They seized whatever they wanted for present use and then destroyed the growing plants and broke down protecting banks and walls.
Who acts: followers · What happens: seize, want, destroy, grow, break down, protect · To what, where: whatever, growing plants, banks
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 (followers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 wanted | obj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 use | case |
| 7 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 use | amod |
| 8 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 destroyed | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 destroyed | advmod |
| 11 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 plants | det |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 plants | amod |
| 14 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 destroyed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 broke | cc |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 broke | compound:prt |
| 18 | protecting | protect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 broke | advcl |
| 19 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 protecting | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 walls | cc |
| 21 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 banks | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | followers = follower | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | past | followers = follower | whatever | for present use | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme | |||
| 3 | destroy | past | followers = follower not said here | the growing plants | then | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | |||
| 4 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | break down | past | followers = follower not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | protect | gerund | followers = follower not said here | banks and walls | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Beneficiary |
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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