Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 40
So they made way for the whirlwind warrior as he helped his friend to the sea.
Who acts: gods, warrior · What happens: make, help · To what, where: way, friend
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gods, warrior), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 warrior | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 warrior | det |
| 7 | whirlwind | whirlwind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 warrior | amod |
| 8 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 helped | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 helped | nsubj |
| 11 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 helped | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 helped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | gods = god | way | for the whirlwind warrior | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent way=Product for warrior=Asset | |||
| 2 | help | past | warrior | warrior's friend | to the sea | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/40/