Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 82
Then succeeded the roar of the guns of the fort, Punchbowl battery, the admiral’s ship, the United States ships and others.”
Who acts: guns · What happens: succeed, roar · To what, where: roar
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 (guns), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 succeeded | advmod |
| 2 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 roar | det |
| 4 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 succeeded | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 guns | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guns | det |
| 7 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 roar | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fort | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fort | det |
| 10 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guns | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 battery | punct |
| 12 | Punchbowl | Punchbowl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 battery | compound |
| 13 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roar | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ship | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 admiral | det |
| 16 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ship | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 admiral | case |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roar | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ships | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ships | det |
| 21 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 States | amod |
| 22 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 ships | compound |
| 23 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 succeeded | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 others | cc |
| 25 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ships | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 succeeded | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | the roar of the guns of the fort and Punchbowl battery and the admiral's ship | then | the States ships and others obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | roar | the guns of the fort | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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