Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 78
His boat, far out in the shadows, was not noticed.
What happens: not notice · 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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 boat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 out | punct |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 out | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 boat | parataxis |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shadows | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shadows | det |
| 8 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 out | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 boat | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 noticed | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 noticed | advmod |
| 12 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | past · passive | pursuit's boat | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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