Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 85
In the eyes of the old Hawaiians the ghost-gods had avenged themselves in the battle of “the red mouth guns.”
What happens: avenge, battle · To what, where: ghost gods, eyes, mouth guns
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 eyes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eyes | det |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 avenged | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Hawaiians | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hawaiians | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hawaiians | amod |
| 7 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 avenged | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gods | det |
| 9 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gods | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ghost | punct |
| 11 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 avenged | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 avenged | aux |
| 13 | avenged | avenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 avenged | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 battle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 battle | det |
| 17 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 avenged | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 guns | case |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 guns | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mouth | det |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mouth | amod |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 guns | compound |
| 23 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 battle | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 avenged | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 avenged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avenge | past · perfect · passive | the ghost gods | the eyes | of the old Hawaiians; in the battle of mouth guns; Hawaiians = hawaiian obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | battle | mouth guns | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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