Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 9
This then is the outline of the incidents which changed a king into a self-respecting and somewhat law-abiding citizen.
Who acts: This, outline · What happens: be, change, respect, abide · To what, where: outline, king, citizen
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 (This, outline), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 outline | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 outline | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 outline | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 outline | det |
| 5 | outline | outline | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 incidents | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 incidents | det |
| 8 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 outline | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 outline | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obj |
| 13 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 17 respecting | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 respecting | det |
| 15 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 respecting | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 self | punct |
| 17 | respecting | respect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 changed | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 abiding | cc |
| 19 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 22 abiding | advmod |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 abiding | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 22 | abiding | abide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 respecting | conj |
| 23 | citizen | citizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 abiding | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 outline | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the outline | then | of the incidents | tree rules | ||
| 2 | change | past | the outline | a king | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 3 | respect | gerund | the outline not said here | self compound | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | abide | gerund | the outline not said here | citizen | law compound; somewhat 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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