Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 60
At this time he was forty-seven years of age and just commencing the life work of a king and savage statesman.
Who acts: attack, king · What happens: be, commence, work · To what, where: seven years, life work
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 (attack, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 years | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 years | cop |
| 6 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 seven | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 seven | punct |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 time | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 age | case |
| 11 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 years | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 commencing | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 commencing | advmod |
| 14 | commencing | commence | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 years | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 work | det |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 work | compound |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 commencing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 work | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 statesman | cc |
| 22 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 statesman | amod |
| 23 | statesman | statesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 king | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | attack | seven years | of age | tree rules | |||
| 2 | commence | gerund | attack not said here | the life work of a king and savage statesman | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | work | a king and savage statesman | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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