Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 61
The king looked thoughtfully down into the valley where the wounded and wearied warriors were drawing the war canoes out of the inrolling surf.
Who acts: king, wounded warriors, war · What happens: look, draw, canoe · To what, where: inrolling surf
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 (king, wounded warriors, war), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 5 down | advmod |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 valley | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 valley | det |
| 8 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 drawing | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 warriors | det |
| 11 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 warriors | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wearied | cc |
| 13 | wearied | wearied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wounded | conj |
| 14 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drawing | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 drawing | aux |
| 16 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 valley | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 war | det |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 canoes | nsubj |
| 19 | canoes | canoe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 drawing | ccomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 surf | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 surf | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 surf | det |
| 23 | inrolling | inrolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 surf | compound |
| 24 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 canoes | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the king | into the valley; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into valley=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past · progressive | the wounded warriors | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | canoe | present | the war | the inrolling surf | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V PP.location»: agent=Theme out surf=Trajectory |
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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