Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 197
Six spears were to be hurled at once by six chiefs not over sixty feet distant from the catcher.
Who acts: six chiefs · What happens: hurl · To what, where: Six spears
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six chiefs), 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 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 spears | nummod |
| 2 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hurled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurled | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hurled | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hurled | aux:pass |
| 6 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 hurled | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 chiefs | case |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 chiefs | nummod |
| 11 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hurled | obl:agent |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sixty | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 sixty | advmod |
| 14 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 feet | nummod |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 distant | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hurled | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 catcher | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 catcher | det |
| 19 | catcher | catcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 distant | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | past · passive | six chiefs | Six spears | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at once=Destination |
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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