Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 69
He called a few strong boatmen and his favourite canoe steerer, launched one of the war canoes, and with sail and paddle sped southward.
Who acts: chief · What happens: call, launch, speed · To what, where: few strong boatmen, one · 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 (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 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boatmen | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boatmen | amod |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boatmen | amod |
| 6 | boatmen | boatman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 steerer | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 steerer | nmod:poss |
| 9 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steerer | amod |
| 10 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 steerer | compound |
| 11 | steerer | steerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boatmen | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 launched | punct |
| 13 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 launched | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 canoes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 canoes | det |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 canoes | compound |
| 18 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sped | cc |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 sail | case |
| 22 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sped | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 paddle | cc |
| 24 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sail | conj |
| 25 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 26 | southward | southward | ADV | _ | 25 sped | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | chief | a few strong boatmen and chief's favourite canoe steerer | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boatman=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | launch | past | chief not said here | one of the war canoes | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speed | past | chief not said here | with sail and paddle; southward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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