Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 200
If any man plunders or murders the defenceless or the innocent he shall be punished.
Who acts: man · What happens: plunder, murder, punish · To what, where: man
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 (man), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 plunders | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plunders | nsubj |
| 4 | plunders | plunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 murders | cc |
| 6 | murders | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plunders | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 defenceless | det |
| 8 | defenceless | defenceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 murders | xcomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 innocent | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 innocent | det |
| 11 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 defenceless | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 punished | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 punished | aux:pass |
| 15 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 innocent | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plunders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunder | present | any man | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | murder | present | any man not said here | defenceless property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | punish | shall · passive | man | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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