Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 94
Paiea looked, recognised his ruling chief and called out: “It is Ka-meha-meha!”
Who acts: Paiea, island · What happens: look, recognise, rule, call out, be · To what, where: ruling chief, Ka · 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 (Paiea, island), 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 | Paiea | Paiea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognised | punct |
| 4 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chief | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ruling | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 chief | amod |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recognised | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 recognised | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ka | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ka | punct |
| 13 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 Ka | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Ka | cop |
| 15 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 meha | punct |
| 17 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 Ka | dep |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 meha | punct |
| 19 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 meha | flat:foreign |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 meha | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Paiea | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | recognise | past | Paiea not said here | Paiea's ruling chief | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rule | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | call out speech: express | participle | Paiea not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | island | Ka | 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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