Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 179
Wholesale destruction, possibly because of the bitter war of 1783, stared them in the face.
Who acts: Wholesale destruction · What happens: stare · To what, where: prisoners, face
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 (Wholesale destruction), 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 | Wholesale | wholesale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 destruction | amod |
| 2 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 war | punct |
| 4 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 9 war | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 9 war | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 because | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 war | det |
| 8 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 war | amod |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 destruction | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 1783 | case |
| 11 | 1783 | 1783 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 war | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 destruction | punct |
| 13 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stared | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 face | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 face | det |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stared | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | Wholesale destruction because the bitter war of 1783 | prisoners = prisoner | the face | tree rules |
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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