Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 75
The sea did not break over the boat, nor were they wet.
Who acts: sea, seas · What happens: not break, be · To what, where: boat
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 (sea, seas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 break | advmod |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 boat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wet | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 wet | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wet | cop |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wet | nsubj |
| 13 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 break | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not break | past · do-support | the sea | the boat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over boat=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | seas = sea | wet 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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