Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 44
I have thrown my spear and it did not pierce the clouds.
Who acts: I, fort · What happens: throw, not pierce · To what, where: spear, clouds
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 (I, fort), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thrown | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrown | aux |
| 3 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 spear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrown | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pierce | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pierce | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pierce | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 pierce | advmod |
| 10 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thrown | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clouds | det |
| 12 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pierce | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present · perfect | I | my spear | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not pierce | past · do-support | fort | the clouds | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient |
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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