Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 22
The younger chief covered his face with his hands and uttered the Auwe—the Hawaiian wail for the dead.
Who acts: younger chief · What happens: cover, utter · To what, where: face, Auwe
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 (younger chief), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | nsubj |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covered | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 uttered | cc |
| 11 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Auwe | det |
| 13 | Auwe | Auwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 uttered | obj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 wail | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wail | det |
| 16 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wail | amod |
| 17 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Auwe | appos |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 dead | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dead | det |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wail | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the younger chief | chief's face | with chief's hands | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | the younger chief not said here | the Auwe | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent auwe=Topic |
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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