Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 115
Ka-meha-meha seized this spear and quickly broke it near the body.
What happens: seize, break · To what, where: Ka, spear, body
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: 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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 meha | punct |
| 3 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Ka | dep |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 meha | punct |
| 5 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Ka | dep |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 spear | det |
| 8 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 broke | cc |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 broke | advmod |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 broke | obj |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | participle · passive | Ka | this spear obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | past | spear | the body | quickly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/18/115/