Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 16
He was carried to the god’s house and hung up in the roof that he might feel the warm air of the fire and be cherished into life.
Who acts: Maui · What happens: carry, hang up, feel, cherish · To what, where: Maui, house, roof, warm air, life
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 (Maui), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 god | det |
| 6 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 god | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hung | cc |
| 10 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 hung | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 roof | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roof | det |
| 14 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hung | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 feel | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 feel | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 feel | aux |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hung | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 air | det |
| 20 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 air | amod |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feel | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fire | det |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 air | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cherished | cc |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 cherished | aux:pass |
| 27 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 feel | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cherished | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | Maui | the god's house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | hang up | past | the roof | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in roof=Location | |||||
| 3 | feel | might | Maui | the warm air of the fire | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cherish | infinitive · passive | Maui not said here | life | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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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