Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 80
It was soon seen that the invaders were being defeated.
What happens: see, defeat · To what, where: battle, invaders
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 defeated | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 invaders | det |
| 7 | invaders | invader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 defeated | aux |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 defeated | aux:pass |
| 10 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seen | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | battle | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | defeat | past · progressive · passive | the invaders | 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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