Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 75
Not a torn or weather-beaten sail hung by the masts.
What happens: tear, beat, hang · To what, where: torn sail
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: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sail | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sail | det |
| 3 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sail | amod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 beaten | cc |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beaten | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 weather | punct |
| 7 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 torn | conj |
| 8 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sail | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 masts | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 masts | det |
| 12 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hung | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | beat | participle | weather compound | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hang | participle | a torn sail not said here | by the masts | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by mast=Location |
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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