Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 70
Isaac Davis and John Young took charge of this portion of battle array.
Who acts: Isaac · What happens: take, charge · To what, where: charge, portion
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 (Isaac), 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 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Davis | Davis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Isaac | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 John | cc |
| 4 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Isaac | conj |
| 5 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 John | amod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 portion | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 portion | det |
| 10 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 charge | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 array | case |
| 12 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 array | compound |
| 13 | array | array | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 portion | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Isaac and John | charge of this portion of battle array | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | charge | this portion of battle array | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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