Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 31
After a long time Maui came to a woman and said: “Give me a drink from your gourd calabash and I will push the heavens higher.”
Who acts: Maui · What happens: come, say, give, push · To what, where: drink, Maui, gourd calabash, heavens · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Give | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Give | punct |
| 14 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Give | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drink | det |
| 17 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Give | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 calabash | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 calabash | nmod:poss |
| 20 | gourd | gourd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 calabash | compound |
| 21 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Give | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 push | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 push | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 push | aux |
| 25 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Give | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 heavens | det |
| 27 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 push | obj |
| 28 | higher | high | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 push | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Give | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Maui | time | to a woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Maui not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | a drink | Maui | your gourd calabash | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient drink=Theme | |||
| 4 | push in a quote | future | Maui | the heavens | high property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme |
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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