Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 88
Like a shark the war canoe dashed toward the fishermen.
What happens: dash · To what, where: war canoe, fishermen
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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 shark | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shark | det |
| 3 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 canoe | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 canoe | det |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 canoe | compound |
| 6 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 canoe | acl |
| 8 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 10 fishermen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fishermen | det |
| 10 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dashed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 canoe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | participle | the war canoe like a shark not said here | the fishermen | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward fisherman=Trajectory |
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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