Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 206
“The Law of the Splintered Paddle” marked the awakening of a pagan conscience to a sense of just dealing between the strong and the weak.
Who acts: Law, sense, pagan conscience · What happens: splinter, mark, deal, awaken · To what, where: awakening
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 (Law, sense, pagan conscience), 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 | _ | 3 Law | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Law | det |
| 3 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 marked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Paddle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Paddle | det |
| 6 | Splintered | splinter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Paddle | amod |
| 7 | Paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Law | nmod |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Law | punct |
| 9 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 awakening | det |
| 11 | awakening | awakening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 conscience | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 conscience | det |
| 14 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 conscience | amod |
| 15 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 awakening | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sense | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sense | det |
| 18 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marked | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 dealing | mark |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 dealing | advmod |
| 21 | dealing | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 sense | acl |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 strong | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 strong | det |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dealing | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 weak | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 weak | det |
| 27 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 strong | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | splinter in a quote | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mark | past | the Law of the Splintered Paddle | the awakening of a pagan conscience | to a sense | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent awakening=Theme to sense=Attribute | |||
| 3 | deal | gerund | a sense not said here | between the strong | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | awaken | a pagan conscience | nom awakening «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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