Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 96
They seized paddles and nets and snares and with the screaming women and children fled, rushing along the reef, falling into the deep holes, swimming and stumbling toward the mainland.
Who acts: people, screaming women · What happens: seize, scream, flee, rush, fall, stumble · To what, where: paddles, reef, deep holes, mainland
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, screaming women), 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 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | paddles | paddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seized | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nets | cc |
| 5 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paddles | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 snares | cc |
| 7 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paddles | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fled | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 women | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 women | det |
| 11 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 women | amod |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fled | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 children | cc |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 women | conj |
| 15 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rushing | punct |
| 17 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 fled | advcl |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 reef | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 reef | det |
| 20 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rushing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 falling | punct |
| 22 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 rushing | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 holes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 holes | det |
| 25 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 holes | amod |
| 26 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 falling | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 swimming | punct |
| 28 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 holes | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stumbling | cc |
| 30 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 falling | conj |
| 31 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 33 mainland | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mainland | det |
| 33 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stumbling | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | people | paddles and nets and snares | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paddle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | flee | past | the screaming women and children | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rush | gerund | the screaming women and children not said here | the reef | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along reef=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | fall | gerund | the screaming women and children not said here | into the deep holes and swimming result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hole=Result | ||||
| 6 | stumble | gerund | the screaming women and children not said here | the mainland | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward mainland=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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