Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 111
Meantime the fishermen had secured spears and were returning to kill Ka-meha-meha.
Who acts: you, fishermen · What happens: meantime, have, secure, return, kill · To what, where: secured spears, Ka
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 (you, fishermen), 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 | Meantime | meantime | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fishermen | det |
| 3 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Meantime | ccomp |
| 5 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 spears | amod |
| 6 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 returning | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 returning | aux |
| 9 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 had | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 kill | mark |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 returning | xcomp |
| 12 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 meha | punct |
| 14 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 Ka | dep |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 meha | punct |
| 16 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 Ka | dep |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meantime | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the fishermen | secured spears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | secure | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | return | past · progressive | the fishermen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | the fishermen not said here | Ka | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ka=Theme |
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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