Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 81
At last the guardian of the war god, wounded and bleeding, fought, seated upon a block of lava.
What happens: bleed, fight, seat · To what, where: last guardian
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 guardian | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guardian | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guardian | det |
| 4 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fought | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 god | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 god | det |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 god | compound |
| 8 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guardian | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wounded | punct |
| 10 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 god | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bleeding | cc |
| 12 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 wounded | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guardian | punct |
| 14 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seated | punct |
| 16 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fought | parataxis |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 block | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 block | det |
| 19 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seated | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 lava | case |
| 21 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 block | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleed | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 2 | fight | past | the last guardian of the war god | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seat | participle | upon a block of lava | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
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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