Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 146
Therefore, he sent his warriors home to cultivate their fields and prepare new war material for future conflicts.
Who acts: meha · What happens: send, cultivate, prepare · To what, where: warriors, fields, new war material
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 (meha), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cultivate | mark |
| 9 | cultivate | cultivate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fields | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cultivate | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 prepare | cc |
| 13 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cultivate | conj |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 material | amod |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 material | compound |
| 16 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prepare | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 conflicts | case |
| 18 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 conflicts | amod |
| 19 | conflicts | conflict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 prepare | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | meha | meha's warriors | home, therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme | |||
| 2 | cultivate | to-infinitive | meha not said here | warriors's fields | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Product | ||||
| 3 | prepare | infinitive | meha not said here | new war material | for future conflicts | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent material=Product for conflict=Beneficiary |
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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