Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 57
The favors of the war gods had been almost equally distributed.
What happens: distribute, favor · To what, where: favors, war gods
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 favors | det |
| 2 | favors | favor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 distributed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gods | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gods | det |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gods | compound |
| 6 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 favors | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 distributed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 distributed | aux:pass |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 equally | advmod |
| 10 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 11 distributed | advmod |
| 11 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 distributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distribute | past · perfect · passive | the favors of the war gods | equally property | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | favor | the war gods | nom favor «act transitive»: of=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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