Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 4
There are slightly different versions of the tale as frequently occurs when handed down verbally through different channels.
Who acts: different versions · What happens: be, occur, hand down · To what, where: different channels
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 (different versions), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 4 different | advmod |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 versions | amod |
| 5 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tale | det |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 versions | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 occurs | mark |
| 10 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 11 occurs | advmod |
| 11 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | advcl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 handed | advmod |
| 13 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 occurs | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 handed | compound:prt |
| 15 | verbally | verbally | ADV | _ | 13 handed | advmod |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 channels | case |
| 17 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 channels | amod |
| 18 | channels | channel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 handed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | different versions of the tale | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | occur | present | different versions of the tale not said here | frequently property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hand down | participle | different versions of the tale not said here | different channels | verbally property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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