Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 164
While waiting here, some time between the years 1796 and 1802, he determined to find the men of the splintered paddle.
Who acts: king · What happens: wait, determine, find, splinter · To what, where: men
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 (king), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 waiting | mark |
| 2 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 determined | advcl |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 waiting | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waiting | obl |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 years | det |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | nmod |
| 10 | 1796 | 1796 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 1802 | cc |
| 12 | 1802 | 1802 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 1796 | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 determined | nsubj |
| 15 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 determined | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 find | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 paddle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 paddle | det |
| 22 | splintered | splinter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 paddle | amod |
| 23 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 men | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | king not said here | here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | determine | past | king | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | king not said here | the men of the splintered paddle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 4 | splinter | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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