Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 73
Heavy winds blew and dashed the waves high around the canoe.
Who acts: Heavy winds · What happens: blow, dash · To what, where: waves
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 (Heavy winds), 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 | Heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 winds | amod |
| 2 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dashed | cc |
| 5 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waves | det |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dashed | obj |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 waves | amod |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 canoe | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 canoe | det |
| 11 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 high | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Heavy winds | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | dash | past | Heavy winds not said here | the waves | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=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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