Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 117
When Ka-meha-meha had freed himself he and his companion came down to the shore.
Who acts: Ka · What happens: free, come down · To what, where: Ka, shore
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 freed | mark |
| 2 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 meha | punct |
| 4 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Ka | dep |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 meha | punct |
| 6 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Ka | dep |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 freed | aux |
| 8 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 came | advcl |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 freed | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 companion | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 companion | nmod:poss |
| 13 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 he | conj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 shore | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shore | det |
| 18 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | past · perfect · passive | Ka | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come down | past | Ka | the shore | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=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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