Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 109
Each endeavoured to learn the trick by which his antagonist would change the order of battle.
Who acts: antagonist · What happens: endeavour, learn, change, order · To what, where: Each, trick, order, battle
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (antagonist), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 endeavoured | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 learn | mark |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trick | det |
| 6 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learn | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 change | obl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 antagonist | nmod:poss |
| 10 | antagonist | antagonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 change | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 change | aux |
| 12 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learn | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 order | det |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 change | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 battle | case |
| 16 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 order | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 endeavoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endeavour | participle · passive | Each | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | the trick | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic | |||||
| 3 | change | would | motion's antagonist | the order of battle | which obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient | |||
| 4 | order | battle | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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