Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 202
The old man or the old woman or the child may lie down to sleep by the roadside and none shall injure them.”
Who acts: old man, none · What happens: lie down, sleep, injure · To what, where: children
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 (old man, none), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 woman | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 child | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woman | conj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 lie | aux |
| 12 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 lie | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sleep | mark |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lie | advcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 roadside | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roadside | det |
| 18 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sleep | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 injure | cc |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 22 injure | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 injure | aux |
| 22 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 roadside | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 injure | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lie | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | may | the old man or the old woman or the child | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the old man or the old woman or the child not said here | by the roadside | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | injure | shall | none | children = child | tree rules |
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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