Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 75
The conflict was largely a matter of taunts and shouts, broken canoes and drowning warriors.
Who acts: conflict · What happens: be, shout, break, drown · To what, where: matter
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 (conflict), 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 conflict | det |
| 2 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | cop |
| 4 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 6 matter | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 matter | det |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 taunts | case |
| 8 | taunts | taunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 matter | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shouts | cc |
| 10 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 taunts | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 canoes | punct |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 canoes | amod |
| 13 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taunts | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 warriors | cc |
| 15 | drowning | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 warriors | amod |
| 16 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taunts | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the conflict | a matter | of taunts and broken canoes and drowning warriors; largely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | the conflict not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | drown | gerund | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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