Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 120
The marines were stationed at the American legation and the sailors at Arion Hall.
What happens: station · To what, where: marines, American legation
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 marines | det |
| 2 | marines | marine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stationed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stationed | aux:pass |
| 4 | stationed | station | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 legation | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legation | det |
| 7 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legation | amod |
| 8 | legation | legation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stationed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sailors | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sailors | det |
| 11 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 legation | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Hall | case |
| 13 | Arion | Arion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hall | compound |
| 14 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 legation | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stationed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | past · passive | the marines | the American legation at Arion Hall and the sailors | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at legation=Destination |
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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