Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 33
When he had taken a deep draught he braced himself against the clouds and lifted them to the height of the trees.
Who acts: Maui · What happens: take, brace, lift · To what, where: deep draught, Maui, clouds, height
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 taken | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 draught | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 draught | amod |
| 7 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 braced | nsubj |
| 9 | braced | brace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 draught | acl:relcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 braced | obj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 clouds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clouds | det |
| 13 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 braced | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lifted | cc |
| 15 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lifted | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 height | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 height | det |
| 19 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lifted | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trees | det |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 height | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | Maui | a deep draught | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme | ||||
| 2 | brace | past | Maui | Maui | against the clouds | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lift | past | Maui not said here | clouds = cloud | the height of the trees | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to height=Destination |
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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