Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 55
Maui proposed to his brothers that they go fishing, leaving him to watch the birds.
Who acts: Maui, brothers · What happens: propose, go, fish, leave, watch · To what, where: brothers, Maui, birds
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, brothers), 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 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 proposed | nsubj |
| 2 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 brothers | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 proposed | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 proposed | ccomp |
| 9 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 go | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaving | punct |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fishing | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 leaving | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 watch | mark |
| 14 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leaving | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 birds | det |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 watch | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | Maui | Maui's brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | present | brothers = brother | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fish | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | Maui | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | watch | to-infinitive | Maui not said here | the birds | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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