Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 86
The natives of Papai, a bay on the Puna coast, hastened into the sea to gather the delicacies which are usually found among the shell-fish along the reef, and also to set nets and snares for fish.
What happens: hasten, gather, find, set · To what, where: natives, sea, delicacies, nets
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 natives | det |
| 2 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hastened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Papai | case |
| 4 | Papai | Papai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 natives | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bay | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bay | det |
| 7 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Papai | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 coast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coast | det |
| 10 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 coast | compound |
| 11 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bay | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hastened | punct |
| 13 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hastened | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 gather | mark |
| 18 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hastened | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 delicacies | det |
| 20 | delicacies | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gather | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 found | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 24 found | advmod |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 delicacies | acl:relcl |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 29 fish | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fish | det |
| 27 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fish | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 shell | punct |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 30 | along | along | ADP | _ | 32 reef | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 reef | det |
| 32 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fish | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 set | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 set | cc |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 37 set | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 set | mark |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 hastened | parataxis |
| 38 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 set | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 snares | cc |
| 40 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 nets | conj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 fish | case |
| 42 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle · passive | the natives of Papai | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | the delicacies | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delicacy=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | present · passive | the delicacies | among the shell fish along the reef; usually property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive | nets and snares | for fish | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent net=Patient for fish=Beneficiary |
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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