Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 11
The moment they reached the summit they hastened to the edge that broke in a sheer precipice to the ocean’s brink.
Who acts: moment, points, edge · What happens: reach, hasten, break · To what, where: summit, edge, sheer precipice
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 (moment, points, edge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 summit | det |
| 6 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hastened | nsubj |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 summit | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 edge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 edge | det |
| 11 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 broke | nsubj |
| 13 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 edge | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 precipice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 precipice | det |
| 16 | sheer | sheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 precipice | compound |
| 17 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broke | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 brink | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ocean | det |
| 20 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brink | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 ocean | case |
| 22 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broke | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the moment | the summit | points = point nsubj | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent summit=Theme | |||
| 2 | hasten | past | points = point | the summit not said here | the edge | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent summit=Theme to edge=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | break | past | the edge | a sheer precipice | to the ocean's brink | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in precipice=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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