Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 32
Spears were seized, war clubs swung and oval, double-pointed stones dropped into the slings.
What happens: seize, swing, drop · To what, where: Spears, war clubs, double pointed stones, slings
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | aux:pass |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 clubs | punct |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clubs | compound |
| 6 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | obl |
| 7 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 clubs | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 oval | cc |
| 9 | oval | oval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swung | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stones | punct |
| 11 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stones | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 double | punct |
| 13 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stones | amod |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clubs | conj |
| 15 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stones | acl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 slings | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 slings | det |
| 18 | slings | sling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dropped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | Spears | war clubs and double pointed stones obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swing | participle | war clubs and double pointed stones not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | drop | participle | double pointed stones not said here | the slings | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sling=Trajectory |
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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