Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 62

In the village could be heard wailing as the scanty news of the battle was hastily reported, and the people realised that some loved chief or friend would never return again to their homes.

Who acts: people, loved chief · What happens: hear, wail, report, realise, love, not return · To what, where: village, battle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, loved chief), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 village	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 village	det
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	aux:pass
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	wailing	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 heard	xcomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 news	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 news	det
10	scanty	scanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 news	compound
11	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wailing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 battle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 battle	det
14	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 news	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 reported	aux:pass
16	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	17 reported	advmod
17	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 battle	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 realised	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 realised	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 realised	nsubj
22	realised	realise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 return	mark
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 chief	det
25	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 chief	amod
26	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 return	nsubj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 friend	cc
28	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chief	conj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 return	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 return	advmod
31	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 realised	ccomp
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 return	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 homes	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 homes	nmod:poss
35	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 return	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could · passive			the village			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Stimulus
2	wail	gerund					as the scanty news of the battle	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	report	past · passive		the battle not said here			hastily property	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»
4	realise	past	the people					tree rules
5	love	participle						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
6	not return	would	some loved chief or friend			again	to people's homes result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 62

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 62