Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 95
Then the people were filled with fear, for the prowess of the chief was well known and greatly feared.
What happens: fill, know, fear · To what, where: people, prowess
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 filled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | aux:pass |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fear | case |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prowess | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 prowess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prowess | det |
| 11 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chief | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prowess | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 known | advmod |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 filled | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feared | cc |
| 19 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 20 feared | advmod |
| 20 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 known | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the people | then | with fear | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fear=Instrument | |||
| 2 | know | past · passive | the prowess of the chief | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fear | past | greatly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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