Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 72
The fleet of the invading army formed in battle array out in the deep waters off the Waipio coast.
Who acts: fleet · What happens: invade, form, array out · To what, where: invading army, battle, deep waters
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 (fleet), 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 | 2 fleet | det |
| 2 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 array | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 army | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 army | det |
| 5 | invading | invade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 army | amod |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fleet | nmod |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 army | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 battle | case |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 formed | obl |
| 10 | array | array | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 array | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 waters | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waters | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 waters | amod |
| 15 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 array | obl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 coast | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coast | det |
| 18 | Waipio | Waipio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 coast | compound |
| 19 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waters | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 array | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invade | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | form | participle | the invading army not said here | battle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in battle=Location | ||||
| 3 | array out | present | the fleet of the invading army | the deep waters off the Waipio coast | tree rules |
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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