Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 126
The king could not have the spear removed without great danger, so waited, thinking to have the wound well cared for after reaching Lau-pa-hoe-hoe.
Who acts: king · What happens: not have, remove, wait, think, have, care · To what, where: spear, wound, pa hoe hoe, Lau
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 (king), 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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spear | det |
| 7 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spear | acl |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 danger | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 danger | amod |
| 11 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 removed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 waited | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 waited | advmod |
| 14 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinking | punct |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 cared | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thinking | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wound | det |
| 20 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 cared | advmod |
| 22 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 waited | conj |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 reaching | mark |
| 24 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 25 reaching | mark |
| 25 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 cared | advcl |
| 26 | Lau | Lau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 reaching | obj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Lau | punct |
| 28 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hoe | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 pa | punct |
| 30 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hoe | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 hoe | punct |
| 32 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reaching | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | could | the king | the spear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remove | participle | the spear not said here | without great danger | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | the wound | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | |||||
| 6 | care | past | well property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | reach | gerund | pa hoe hoe | Lau | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent lau=Beneficiary hoe=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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