Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 17
When he was old enough he came to his relations while they were at home, dancing and making merry.
Who acts: Maui, relations · What happens: be, come, dance, make · To what, where: relations, home
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, relations), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 old | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 old | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 relations | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 relations | nmod:poss |
| 10 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 home | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 home | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 home | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dancing | punct |
| 17 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 making | cc |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 dancing | conj |
| 20 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 making | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Maui | enough, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Maui | Maui's relations | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to relation=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | relations = relation | home | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dance | gerund | Maui not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | Maui not said here | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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