Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 11

When Maui was born his mother, not caring for him, cut off a lock of her hair, tied it around him and cast him into the sea.

Who acts: you · What happens: bear, not care, cut off, tie, cast · To what, where: Maui, lock, sea

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	4 born	advmod
2	Maui	Maui	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cut	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 caring	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 caring	advmod
9	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 born	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caring	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
13	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 cut	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lock	det
16	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 hair	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hair	nmod:poss
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lock	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tied	punct
21	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tied	obj
23	around	around	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tied	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cast	cc
26	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tied	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cast	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cast	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		Maui		Maui's mother obj	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mother=Patient
2	not care	gerund				for Maui	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
3	cut off	imperative	you not said here	a lock of her hair			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lock=Eventuality
4	tie	past		lock		around Maui	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	cast	past		Maui	the sea		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into sea=Product

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, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 11

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 11