Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 20
He divided his warriors into three parties, taking charge of the first in person.
Who acts: Keoua · What happens: divide, take · To what, where: warriors, three parties, charge
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Keoua), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 divided | nsubj |
| 2 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 divided | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 parties | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 parties | nummod |
| 7 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 divided | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taking | punct |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 divided | advcl |
| 10 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 first | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 first | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 charge | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 person | case |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 first | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | Keoua | Keoua's warriors | three parties | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | Keoua not said here | charge of the first in person | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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