Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 201
This law is given in memory of my steersman and shall be known as ‘Ke Kana-wai Ma-mala-hoa,’ or the law of the friend and the broken oars.
What happens: give, know, break · To what, where: law, memory
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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 law | det |
| 2 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 memory | case |
| 6 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 steersman | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 steersman | nmod:poss |
| 9 | steersman | steersman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 memory | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 known | cc |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 given | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Ke | case |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 as | punct |
| 16 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 known | obl |
| 17 | Kana | Kana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ke | flat |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wai | punct |
| 19 | wai | wai | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 hoa | dep |
| 20 | Ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mala | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ma | punct |
| 22 | mala | mala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hoa | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 mala | punct |
| 24 | hoa | hoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Ke | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 law | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 law | det |
| 29 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 friend | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 friend | det |
| 32 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 law | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 oars | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 oars | det |
| 35 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 oars | amod |
| 36 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 friend | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | this law | memory of my steersman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | shall · passive | as Ke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as ke=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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