Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 172
The new king, against whom they had at one time fought, might intend their sacrifice in numbers.
Who acts: people, new king · What happens: have, fight, intend, sacrifice · To what, where: new king, sacrifice, numbers
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 (people, new 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 whom | punct |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 whom | case |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 king | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 time | nummod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 12 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 intend | punct |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 intend | aux |
| 15 | intend | intend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fought | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sacrifice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 intend | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 numbers | case |
| 19 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 intend | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | people | the new king | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | |||
| 2 | fight | past | the new king | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | intend | might | the new king not said here | people's sacrifice | numbers | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Topic | |||
| 4 | sacrifice | people | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: 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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