Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 164
The soldiers marched to their barracks to be sworn into their new service.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: march, swear, service · To what, where: new service
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: who acts (soldiers), 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 soldiers | det |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 marched | nsubj |
| 3 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 barracks | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 barracks | nmod:poss |
| 6 | barracks | barrack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 marched | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sworn | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sworn | aux:pass |
| 9 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 marched | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 service | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 service | nmod:poss |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 service | amod |
| 13 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sworn | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | the soldiers | to soldiers's barracks result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to barrack=Result | ||||
| 2 | swear | to-infinitive · passive | the soldiers not said here | soldiers's new service | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 3 | service | soldiers = soldier | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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