Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 36
The Manahiki Islanders say that Maui desired to separate the sky from the earth.
Who acts: Manahiki Islanders, Maui · What happens: say, desire, separate · To what, where: sky · 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 (Manahiki Islanders, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Islanders | det |
| 2 | Manahiki | Manahiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Islanders | compound |
| 3 | Islanders | islander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 desired | mark |
| 6 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 desired | nsubj |
| 7 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 separate | mark |
| 9 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 desired | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 separate | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 separate | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Manahiki Islanders | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | desire | past | Maui | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | separate not said to happen | to-infinitive | Maui not said here | the sky | from the earth | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sky=Patient from earth=Co-Patient |
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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