Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 101
The food became “morsels,” or only enough for a bird to “pick up.”
Who acts: food · What happens: become, pick up · To what, where: morsels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 food | det |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 morsels | punct |
| 5 | morsels | morsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 became | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 morsels | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 morsels | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 bird | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 bird | advmod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 only | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 morsels | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 pick | case |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 pick | punct |
| 16 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 bird | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 pick | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 morsels | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 morsels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the food | morsels or a bird | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pick up in a quote | infinitive | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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