Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 157
In his last campaign it is said his fleet of canoes lined the beach of one of the islands for a distance of four miles.
Who acts: Ka · What happens: say, line, campaign · To what, where: campaign, beach · 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 (Ka), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 campaign | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 campaign | nmod:poss |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 campaign | amod |
| 4 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lined | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 campaign | acl:relcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fleet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 canoes | case |
| 11 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fleet | nmod |
| 12 | lined | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beach | det |
| 14 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lined | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 beach | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 islands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 islands | det |
| 19 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 distance | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 distance | det |
| 22 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 islands | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 miles | case |
| 24 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 miles | nummod |
| 25 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 distance | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | campaign | Ka's fleet of canoes nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | line | past | the beach of one of the islands for a distance of four miles | in Ka's last campaign | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent beach=Destination in campaign=Theme | ||||
| 3 | campaign | Ka | nom campaign «event intransitive»: 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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