Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 40

The demi-god Maui is said to have noticed how close the sky or clouds came to the earth, and then pushed the sky up until his mother could have room to dry the cloth she was making and the plants have space in which to grow.

Who acts: demi god, mother, cloth, plants, space · What happens: say, notice, close, come, push up, have · To what, where: Maui, sky, earth, room, space · 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: who acts (demi god, mother, cloth, plants), 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	4 god	det
2	demi	demi	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 god	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 demi	punct
4	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
5	Maui	Maui	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux:pass
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 god	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 noticed	mark
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 noticed	aux
10	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	xcomp
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 close	advmod
12	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 noticed	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sky	det
14	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 close	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 clouds	cc
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sky	conj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 earth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earth	det
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pushed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pushed	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 pushed	advmod
24	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sky	det
26	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pushed	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	24 pushed	compound:prt
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 have	mark
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 pushed	advcl
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 dry	mark
35	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 room	acl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cloth	det
37	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 making	nsubj
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 making	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 making	aux
40	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 dry	ccomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 have	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 plants	det
43	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 have	nsubj
44	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 making	conj
45	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 have	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 which	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 grow	nsubj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 grow	mark
49	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 space	acl:relcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive	the demi god not said here	Maui			tree rules
2	notice	to-infinitive · perfect	the demi god not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	close	infinitive	the demi god not said here	the sky or clouds			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Patient
4	come	past	the demi god		the earth		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial_Location
5	push up	past	the demi god not said here	the sky		then	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Theme
6	have	could	god's mother	room			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
7	dry	to-infinitive	god's mother not said here	room not said here			tree rules
8	make	past · progressive	the cloth				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
9	have	present	the plants	space			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient
10	grow	to-infinitive	space	space not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 40

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 40