Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 71
The other canoes were well supplied with firearms.
What happens: supply · To what, where: other canoes
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 canoes | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 canoes | amod |
| 3 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 supplied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 supplied | aux:pass |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 supplied | advmod |
| 6 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 firearms | case |
| 8 | firearms | firearm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 supplied | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 supplied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | supply | past · passive | the other canoes | with firearms; well property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with firearm=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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