Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 149
White men were secured to take charge of small cannon, and to drill squads of warriors equipped with the rude firearms of a century ago.
What happens: secure, take, drill, equip, charge · To what, where: White men, charge, squads, small cannon
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. 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 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 secured | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 secured | aux:pass |
| 4 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 secured | xcomp |
| 7 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cannon | case |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cannon | amod |
| 10 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 charge | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drill | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drill | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drill | mark |
| 14 | drill | drill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 15 | squads | squad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 drill | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 warriors | case |
| 17 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 squads | nmod |
| 18 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 squads | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 firearms | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 firearms | det |
| 21 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 firearms | amod |
| 22 | firearms | firearm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 equipped | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 century | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 century | det |
| 25 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ago | obl |
| 26 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 22 firearms | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 secured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | past · passive | White men | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | charge of small cannon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drill | to-infinitive | squads of warriors | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squad=Patient | |||||
| 4 | equip | participle | squads of warriors not said here | with the rude firearms | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with firearm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | charge | small cannon | nom charge «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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