Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 47
In it he placed forty guns, six, eight and twelve pounders, from which thundering salutes were fired on every possible occasion.
Who acts: Kauai · What happens: place, fire · To what, where: forty guns, fort, thundering salutes, possible occasion
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 (Kauai), 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 | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | nsubj |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 guns | nummod |
| 6 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 six | punct |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 guns | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eight | punct |
| 10 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 six | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pounders | cc |
| 12 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pounders | nummod |
| 13 | pounders | pounder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 guns | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fired | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fired | obl |
| 17 | thundering | thundering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 salutes | compound |
| 18 | salutes | salute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fired | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fired | aux:pass |
| 20 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 placed | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 occasion | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 occasion | det |
| 23 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 occasion | amod |
| 24 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fired | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Kauai | forty guns and twelve pounders | fort | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gun=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 2 | fire | past · passive | thundering salutes | every possible occasion | which obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on occasion=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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