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title: “The Law of the Splintered Paddle” marked the awakening of a pagan c… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “The Law of the Splintered Paddle” marked the awakening of a pagan conscience to a sense of just dealing between the strong and the weak. Who acts: Law, sense, pagan conscience. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tre
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 206

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“The Law of the Splintered Paddle” marked the awakening of a pagan conscience to a sense of just dealing between the strong and the weak.

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**Who acts:** Law, sense, pagan conscience · **What happens:** splinter, mark, deal, awaken · **To what, where:** awakening

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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 (Law, sense, pagan conscience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:18:206
# text = “The Law of the Splintered Paddle” marked the awakening of a pagan conscience to a sense of just dealing between the strong and the weak.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Splintered	splinter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	Paddle	paddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	awakening	awakening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **splinter** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mark** | past | the Law of the Splintered Paddle | the awakening of a pagan conscience |  |  |  | to a sense | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent awakening=Theme to sense=Attribute |
| 3 | **deal** | gerund | a sense *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between the strong | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **awaken** |  | a pagan conscience |  |  |  |  |  | nom awakening «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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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