Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 55
Kiwa-lao was slain in one of the early conflicts.
What happens: slay · To what, where: Kiwa lao
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 | Kiwa | Kiwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lao | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kiwa | punct |
| 3 | lao | lao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slain | aux:pass |
| 5 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 slain | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 conflicts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 conflicts | det |
| 10 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 conflicts | amod |
| 11 | conflicts | conflict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past · passive | Kiwa lao | in one of the early conflicts | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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