Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 183
But this revealed them at once to Ka-meha-meha, and he approached them with the command to raise their heads.
Who acts: this, Ka · What happens: reveal, approach, raise · To what, where: prisoners, Ka, heads
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 (this, Ka), 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 | _ | 3 revealed | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 revealed | nsubj |
| 3 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 revealed | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 revealed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Ka | case |
| 8 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 revealed | obl |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 meha | punct |
| 10 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Ka | dep |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 meha | punct |
| 12 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 meha | flat:foreign |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 approached | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 approached | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 approached | nsubj |
| 16 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 revealed | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 approached | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 command | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 command | det |
| 20 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 approached | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 raise | mark |
| 22 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 approached | advcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heads | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 raise | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 revealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal | past | this | prisoners = prisoner | Ka | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to ka=Recipient | |||
| 2 | approach | past | Ka | prisoners = prisoner | with the command | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Theme with command=Instrument | |||
| 3 | raise | to-infinitive | Ka not said here | prisoners's heads | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
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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