Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 23
Anything, therefore, which gave out an explosive noise when blown into was called “pu.”
What happens: give out, blow, call · To what, where: explosive noise, Anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 gave | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Anything | acl:relcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 gave | compound:prt |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 9 | explosive | explosive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 noise | amod |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 blown | advmod |
| 12 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gave | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 blown | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | aux:pass |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pu | punct |
| 17 | pu | pu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 pu | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pu | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give out | past | a explosive noise | which nsubj; therefore property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent noise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | Anything | pu xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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