Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 110
The steersman became anxious concerning his chief and came up from the boat.
Who acts: steersman · What happens: become, concern, come up · To what, where: chief, boat
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 (steersman), 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 steersman | det |
| 2 | steersman | steersman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 became | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chief | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concerning | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 boat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the steersman | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the steersman not said here | steersman's chief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus chief=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come up | past | the steersman not said here | the boat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from boat=Initial_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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