Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 193
Fragments of broken spears, javelins and war clubs lay in splinters under the feet.
Who acts: Fragments · What happens: break, lay · To what, where: splinters
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fragments), 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 | Fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 spears | case |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spears | amod |
| 4 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fragments | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 javelins | punct |
| 6 | javelins | javelin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spears | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clubs | cc |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clubs | compound |
| 9 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spears | conj |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 splinters | case |
| 12 | splinters | splinter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | obl |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 feet | det |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 splinters | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | lay | present | Fragments of broken spears and javelins and war clubs | splinters under the feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in splinter=Destination |
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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