Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 25
How do the prophets chant the death of my chiefs and warriors?”
Who acts: prophets, chiefs · What happens: do, chant, die · To what, where: death
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 (prophets, chiefs), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 do | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chant | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prophets | det |
| 4 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chant | nsubj |
| 5 | chant | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 death | det |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chant | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 chiefs | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 death | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 warriors | cc |
| 12 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chiefs | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 chant | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the prophets not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | chant | present | the prophets | the death of my chiefs and warriors | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Topic | ||||
| 3 | die | my chiefs and warriors | nom death «event 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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