Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 84
The death rate during these years of devastating warfare was beyond all calculation and thus came a tremendous decrease in the Hawaiian population.
Who acts: death rate · What happens: be, come · To what, where: tremendous decrease, Hawaiian population
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 (death rate), 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 rate | det |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rate | compound |
| 3 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 calculation | nsubj |
| 4 | during | during | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 years | det |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rate | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 warfare | case |
| 8 | devastating | devastating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 warfare | amod |
| 9 | warfare | warfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 years | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 calculation | cop |
| 11 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 13 calculation | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 calculation | det |
| 13 | calculation | calculation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 calculation | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 decrease | det |
| 18 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 decrease | amod |
| 19 | decrease | decrease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 population | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 population | det |
| 22 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 population | amod |
| 23 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 decrease | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 calculation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the death rate during this years of devastating warfare | beyond all calculation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the death rate during this years of devastating warfare not said here | a tremendous decrease | the Hawaiian population | thus property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location decrease=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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