Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 150
Some of these white leaders and their muskets found their way into the service of almost all the important chiefs throughout the islands.
Who acts: Some · What happens: find, service · To what, where: way, service, important chiefs
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 (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 found | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 leaders | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 leaders | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaders | amod |
| 5 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 muskets | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 muskets | nmod:poss |
| 8 | muskets | musket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leaders | conj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 service | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 service | det |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chiefs | case |
| 16 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 17 all | advmod |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 chiefs | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chiefs | det |
| 19 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chiefs | amod |
| 20 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 service | nmod |
| 21 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 23 islands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 islands | det |
| 23 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 chiefs | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Some of this white leaders and leaders's muskets | muskets's way | the service of all important chiefs throughout the islands | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 2 | service | all important chiefs throughout the islands | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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