Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 119
He did not want his high chiefs to know that he had been struck and hurt by a common man.
Who acts: Ka, high chiefs · What happens: not want, know, strike, hurt · To what, where: high chiefs, Ka · Speech: someone speaks here
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, high chiefs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chiefs | amod |
| 7 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 want | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 struck | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 struck | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 struck | aux:pass |
| 14 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 know | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurt | cc |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 struck | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurt | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | Ka | Ka's high chiefs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ka's high chiefs not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | strike | past · perfect · passive | Ka | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument | |||||
| 4 | hurt | participle | by a common man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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