Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 6
The stalwart king descended to the plane of a highway robber and received his punishment.
Who acts: stalwart king, king · What happens: descend, receive, punish · To what, where: stalwart king, plane, punishment
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 (stalwart king, king), 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 received | nsubj |
| 4 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 king | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 plane | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plane | det |
| 7 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 descended | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 robber | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 robber | det |
| 10 | highway | highway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 robber | amod |
| 11 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plane | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 descended | cc |
| 13 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 15 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 received | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | participle | the stalwart king not said here | the plane of a highway robber | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to plane=Location | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the stalwart king | king's punishment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme | ||||
| 3 | punish | king | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=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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