Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 90
They asked each other, “What boat is this of the early morning?”
Who acts: people, this · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: each · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, this), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 asked | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 What | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 What | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 morning | compound |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 morning | cop |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 morning | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 13 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 morning | amod |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 What | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 What | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | people | each | What ccomp | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | this | of the boat early morning | 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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