Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 14
“No,” replied the elder chief, resting on his spear, “the men of Hilo have crawled back to their homes to heal their wounds.
Who acts: elder chief, men, points · What happens: reply, rest, crawl back, heal, wound · To what, where: spear, homes, wounds · 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 (elder chief, men, points), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 7 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chief | amod |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 resting | punct |
| 10 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 spear | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spear | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 resting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crawled | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 crawled | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 crawled | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Hilo | case |
| 19 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 men | nmod |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 crawled | aux |
| 21 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 resting | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 crawled | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 homes | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 homes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 crawled | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 heal | mark |
| 27 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 crawled | advcl |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 heal | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the elder chief | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rest | gerund | the elder chief not said here | chief's spear | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spear=Location | ||||
| 3 | crawl back in a quote | present · perfect | the men of Hilo | points's homes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to home=Destination | ||||
| 4 | heal in a quote | to-infinitive | the men of Hilo not said here | points's wounds | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wound in a quote | points = point | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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