Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 205
Alexander says in his history of the islands: “During the days of Ka-meha-meha energetic measures were taken for the suppression of brigandage, murder and theft throughout the kingdom.”
Who acts: Alexander · What happens: say, take, suppress · To what, where: history, energetic measures, brigandage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Alexander), 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 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 history | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 history | nmod:poss |
| 5 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 islands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 islands | det |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 history | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 days | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 days | punct |
| 11 | During | during | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 days | det |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 says | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ka | case |
| 15 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 days | appos |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 meha | punct |
| 17 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 Ka | dep |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 meha | punct |
| 19 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 meha | conj |
| 20 | energetic | energetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 measures | amod |
| 21 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 taken | aux:pass |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 meha | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 suppression | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 suppression | det |
| 26 | suppression | suppression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 brigandage | case |
| 28 | brigandage | brigandage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suppression | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 murder | punct |
| 30 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suppression | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 theft | cc |
| 32 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 murder | conj |
| 33 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 35 kingdom | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 kingdom | det |
| 35 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 murder | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Alexander | Alexander's history of the islands | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past · passive | energetic measures | for the suppression of brigandage and murder throughout the kingdom and theft | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for suppression=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | suppress in a quote | brigandage | nom suppression «process transitive»: of=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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