Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 76
But in this fight the opposing parties combined the rattle of firearms and the roar of small cannon with the usual war of words.
Who acts: opposing parties, firearms, small cannon, words · What happens: oppose, combine, rattle, roar, war · To what, where: rattle, fight
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 (opposing parties, firearms, small cannon, words), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 combined | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 fight | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fight | det |
| 4 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 combined | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parties | det |
| 6 | opposing | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 parties | amod |
| 7 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 combined | nsubj |
| 8 | combined | combine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rattle | det |
| 10 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 combined | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 firearms | case |
| 12 | firearms | firearm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rattle | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 roar | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 roar | det |
| 15 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 firearms | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cannon | case |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cannon | amod |
| 18 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roar | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 war | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 war | det |
| 21 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 war | amod |
| 22 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cannon | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 words | case |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 war | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 combined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oppose | gerund | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | combine | past | the opposing parties | the rattle of firearms and the roar of small cannon with the usual war of words | this fight | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rattle=Patient | |||
| 3 | rattle | firearms and the roar of small cannon with the usual war of words | nom rattle «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | roar | small cannon with the usual war of words | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | war | words | nom war «act intransitive»: of=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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