Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 177
The king passed through the houses allotted to the Hilo people.
What happens: pass, allot · To what, where: king, houses, Hilo people
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: 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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 houses | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 houses | det |
| 6 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 houses | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 people | compound |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 allotted | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | the king not said here | the houses | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through house=Location | ||||
| 2 | allot | participle | the houses not said here | the Hilo people | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to people=Goal |
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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