Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 67
He imagined that he might go alone and do some daring deed, perhaps make a hurried raid upon some unsuspecting point of his enemy’s territories.
Who acts: chief · What happens: imagine, go, do, make, hurry, point · To what, where: daring deed, hurried raid, territories
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 imagined | nsubj |
| 2 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 imagined | ccomp |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 deed | det |
| 11 | daring | daring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deed | compound |
| 12 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 make | advmod |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 raid | det |
| 17 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 raid | amod |
| 18 | raid | raid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 point | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 point | det |
| 21 | unsuspecting | unsuspecting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 point | amod |
| 22 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 territories | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 25 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 territories | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 enemy | case |
| 27 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 point | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | past | chief | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | might | chief | alone property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | chief not said here | some daring deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | a hurried raid | upon some unsuspecting point of chief's enemy's territories; perhaps property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raid=Product | ||||
| 5 | hurry | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | point | chief's enemy's territories | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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