Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 64
While the chiefs were around the poi-bowl that evening he was very quiet.
Who acts: chiefs, poi bowl · What happens: be · To what, where: poi bowl
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 (chiefs, poi bowl), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 bowl | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chiefs | det |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bowl | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bowl | cop |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 bowl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bowl | det |
| 7 | poi | poi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bowl | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 poi | punct |
| 9 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quiet | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bowl | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 quiet | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 quiet | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 quiet | advmod |
| 15 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the chiefs | the poi bowl | evening | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the poi bowl | chief nsubj; quiet property | tree rules |
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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