Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 125
The spear-head and part of the shaft still rested in the side of the wounded man.
What happens: rest · To what, where: shaft, side, part
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 head | det |
| 2 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 spear | punct |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 part | cc |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shaft | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shaft | det |
| 9 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 rested | advmod |
| 11 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shaft | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rested | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | participle | the shaft not said here | the side of the wounded man | still | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in side=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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