Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 180
But the chief touched them not and passed through their lines out to the houses in which the Puna people were confined.
Who acts: chief · What happens: not touch, pass, confine · To what, where: prisoners, lines, Puna people, houses
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 (chief), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 touched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touched | obj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 touched | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 passed | cc |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 touched | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 lines | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lines | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 passed | obl |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 passed | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 houses | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 houses | det |
| 15 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 passed | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 confined | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 19 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 people | compound |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 confined | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 confined | aux:pass |
| 22 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 houses | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | past | the chief | prisoners = prisoner | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | the chief not said here | prisoners's lines | to the houses; out property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through line=Initial_Location to house=Destination | |||
| 3 | confine | past · passive | the Puna people | the houses | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |
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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