Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 94
The admiral at once landed an armed force with field pieces and scaling ladders and captured the fort.
Who acts: admiral · What happens: land, capture · To what, where: armed force, fort
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 (admiral), 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 admiral | det |
| 2 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 landed | obl |
| 5 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 force | det |
| 7 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 force | amod |
| 8 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 landed | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 pieces | case |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pieces | compound |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 force | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ladders | cc |
| 13 | scaling | scaling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ladders | compound |
| 14 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pieces | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 captured | cc |
| 16 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 landed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fort | det |
| 18 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 captured | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | the admiral | a armed force | with field pieces and scaling ladders | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme force=Destination | |||
| 2 | capture | past | the admiral not said here | the fort | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Theme |
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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