Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 9
For some years the three factions practically let each other alone, although there was desultory fighting.
Who acts: desultory fighting · What happens: let, be · To what, where: each
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 (desultory fighting), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 let | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 factions | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 factions | nummod |
| 6 | factions | faction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 years | conj |
| 7 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 8 let | advmod |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 let | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | parataxis |
| 16 | desultory | desultory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fighting | amod |
| 17 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | each | year | alone, practically property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | desultory fighting | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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