Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 15
Their war canoes are not among the shadows on the water.
Who acts: war canoes · What happens: not be · To what, where: water
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 (war canoes), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 canoes | compound |
| 3 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shadows | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shadows | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 shadows | advmod |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 shadows | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shadows | det |
| 8 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shadows | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shadows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | points's war canoes | the water | among the shadows | tree rules |
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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