Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 101
A fisherman turned and threw his fishnet over the pursuing chief, causing him to fall down upon the sharp lava.
Who acts: fisherman, Ka · What happens: turn, throw, pursue, cause, fall down · To what, where: fishnet, pursuing chief, Ka, sharp lava
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, Ka), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 threw | cc |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fishnet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fishnet | fishnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 chief | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 10 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 chief | amod |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 causing | punct |
| 13 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 threw | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 causing | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fall | mark |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 causing | xcomp |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 fall | advmod |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 lava | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lava | det |
| 20 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lava | amod |
| 21 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | a fisherman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | throw | past | a fisherman not said here | Ka's fishnet | the pursuing chief | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent fishnet=Theme over chief=Destination | |||
| 3 | pursue | gerund | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cause | gerund | a fisherman not said here | Ka | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fall down | to-infinitive | Ka not said here | the sharp lava | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon lava=Location |
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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