Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 50
The home was without windows or doors, save as low openings in the ends or sides allowed entrance to those willing to crawl through.
Who acts: home, ends, entrance · What happens: be, save, allow, crawl · To what, where: low openings, ends, entrance
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 (home, ends, entrance), 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 | 2 home | det |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 windows | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 windows | cop |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 windows | case |
| 5 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 doors | cc |
| 7 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 windows | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 save | punct |
| 9 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 windows | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 low | advmod |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 openings | amod |
| 12 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 save | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ends | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ends | det |
| 15 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 openings | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 sides | cc |
| 17 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ends | conj |
| 18 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ends | acl |
| 19 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 allowed | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 allowed | obl |
| 22 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 those | amod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 crawl | mark |
| 24 | crawl | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 willing | xcomp |
| 25 | through | through | ADV | _ | 24 crawl | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 windows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the home | without windows or doors; doors conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | low openings | in the ends or sides | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allow | participle | the ends or sides not said here | entrance | to the ends or sides | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme to that=Goal | |||
| 4 | crawl | to-infinitive | entrance not said here | through property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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