Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 128
The chiefs soon heard the particulars and called the council of chiefs.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: hear, call · To what, where: particulars, council · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 particulars | det |
| 6 | particulars | particular | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 council | det |
| 10 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 chiefs | case |
| 12 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 council | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the chiefs | the particulars | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer particular=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | call | past | the chiefs not said here | the council of chiefs | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=Recipient |
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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