Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 21
When he saw the queen he prostrated himself at her feet and, without thinking, gave the bananas to her.
Who acts: couple · What happens: see, prostrate, think, give · To what, where: queen, couple, feet, bananas
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prostrated | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 prostrated | nsubj |
| 7 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 prostrated | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prostrated | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 thinking | mark |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 gave | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinking | punct |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prostrated | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bananas | det |
| 19 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prostrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | couple | the queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | prostrate | past | couple | couple | queen's feet | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | give | past | couple not said here | the bananas | queen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent banana=Theme to she=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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