Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 161
Then came the memory of that excursion made in 1783 to Puna for the sake of robbery and possible murder.
Who acts: memory · What happens: come, make · To what, where: excursion, Puna, 1783
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 (memory), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 memory | det |
| 4 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 excursion | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 excursion | det |
| 7 | excursion | excursion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 memory | nmod |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 excursion | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1783 | case |
| 10 | 1783 | 1783 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Puna | case |
| 12 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sake | det |
| 15 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 robbery | case |
| 17 | robbery | robbery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sake | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 murder | cc |
| 19 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 murder | amod |
| 20 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 robbery | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the memory of that excursion | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | that excursion not said here | Puna | 1783 | for the sake of robbery and possible murder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for sake=Asset |
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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