Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 188
“You two perhaps are the men who broke the paddle on my head?”
Who acts: You, men · What happens: be, break · To what, where: men, paddle, head
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 (You, men), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 men | nsubj |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 You | appos |
| 4 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 men | advmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 men | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 men | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 paddle | det |
| 11 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | the men | perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break in a quote | past | the men | the paddle | my head | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paddle=Patient |
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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