Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 40
The Maui warriors had expected to take these men, as a fire without trouble swallows up splinters cast into it.
Who acts: Maui warriors, trouble · What happens: expect, take, swallow up, cast · To what, where: Maui warriors, men, splinters, trouble
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maui warriors, trouble), 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 | 3 warriors | det |
| 2 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 warriors | compound |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expected | aux |
| 5 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 expected | xcomp |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fire | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 swallows | mark |
| 15 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swallows | nsubj |
| 16 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 swallows | compound:prt |
| 18 | splinters | splinter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 swallows | obj |
| 19 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 splinters | acl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cast | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past · perfect · passive | the Maui warriors | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Maui warriors not said here | this men | as a fire | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Theme as fire=Attribute | |||
| 3 | swallow up | present | trouble | splinters | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cast | participle | splinters not said here | trouble | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into it=Product |
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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