Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 50
His was a savage face, large-featured, often ferocious and repulsive.
What happens: be, feature · To what, where: savage face
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 face | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 face | det |
| 4 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 face | amod |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 featured | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 featured | punct |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 featured | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 large | punct |
| 9 | featured | feature | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ferocious | punct |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 ferocious | advmod |
| 12 | ferocious | ferocious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 featured | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 repulsive | cc |
| 14 | repulsive | repulsive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ferocious | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 featured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | friend's savage face | friend nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feature | participle · passive | friend's savage face | tree rules |
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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