Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 55
In a moment his spear and javelin were taken from him and a renowned Maui chief caught him and placed him on his back with the face upward, so that he could not do any injury.
Who acts: renowned Maui chief, opposition · What happens: take, catch, place, not do · To what, where: spear, opposition, back, injury
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 (renowned Maui chief, opposition), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 spear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 javelin | cc |
| 7 | javelin | javelin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spear | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux:pass |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taken | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caught | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 14 | renowned | renowned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chief | amod |
| 15 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 chief | compound |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | nsubj |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 placed | cc |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 caught | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 placed | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 back | nmod:poss |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 face | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 face | det |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | obl |
| 28 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 20 placed | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 do | punct |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 do | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 do | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 do | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 do | advmod |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | parataxis |
| 36 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 injury | det |
| 37 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 do | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | opposition's spear and javelin | moment | from opposition | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | catch | past | a renowned Maui chief | opposition | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past | a renowned Maui chief not said here | opposition | opposition's back | with the face; upward property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on back=Destination | ||
| 4 | not do | could | opposition | any injury | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Eventuality |
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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