Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 184
It was an interesting scene when these common men were brought before the chiefs for final judgment.
Who acts: head, chiefs · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: interesting scene, common men
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 (head, chiefs), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scene | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scene | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scene | det |
| 4 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scene | amod |
| 5 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 brought | mark |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 men | det |
| 8 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux:pass |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 scene | acl |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 chiefs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chiefs | det |
| 14 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obl:agent |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 judgment | case |
| 16 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 judgment | amod |
| 17 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scene | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | head | a interesting scene | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | the chiefs | this common men | for final judgment | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=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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