Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 45
From this home Maui crossed to the island Maui, climbed a great mountain, threw ropes made from fibres of plants around the sun’s legs, pulled off many and then compelled the swift traveller of the heavens to go slowly on its way that men might have longer and better days.
Who acts: Maui, way · What happens: cross, climb, throw, make, pull off, compel · To what, where: home, great mountain, ropes, fibres, many, swift traveller
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, way), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 home | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 home | det |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | obl |
| 4 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | nsubj |
| 5 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 island | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 island | det |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | obl |
| 9 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 island | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 climbed | punct |
| 11 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crossed | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mountain | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mountain | amod |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 climbed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 climbed | parataxis |
| 17 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 threw | obj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ropes | acl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 fibres | case |
| 20 | fibres | fibre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 plants | case |
| 22 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fibres | nmod |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 legs | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sun | det |
| 25 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 legs | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 sun | case |
| 27 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 plants | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pulled | punct |
| 29 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 threw | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 pulled | compound:prt |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pulled | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 compelled | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 compelled | advmod |
| 34 | compelled | compel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 threw | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 traveller | det |
| 36 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 traveller | amod |
| 37 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 compelled | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 heavens | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 heavens | det |
| 40 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 traveller | nmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 go | mark |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 compelled | advcl |
| 43 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 42 go | advmod |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 way | case |
| 45 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 way | nmod:poss |
| 46 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 go | obl |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 have | nsubj |
| 48 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 have | nsubj |
| 49 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 have | aux |
| 50 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 way | acl:relcl |
| 51 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 54 days | amod |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 better | cc |
| 53 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 51 longer | conj |
| 54 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 have | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | Maui | this home | to the island | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location to island=Destination | |||
| 2 | climb | past | a great mountain | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw | past | ropes | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | participle | ropes not said here | fibres of plants around the sun's legs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from fibre=Material | ||||
| 5 | pull off | participle | many | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | compel | past | the swift traveller of the heavens | then | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Patient | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | traveller's way | slowly property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 8 | have | might | traveller's way | day | men nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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