Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 56
But the Alae counted the fishermen and refused to build a fire for the hidden one who was watching them.
Who acts: Alae, hidden one · What happens: count, refuse, not build, watch · To what, where: fishermen, fire
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 (Alae, hidden one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 counted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Alae | det |
| 3 | Alae | Alae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 counted | nsubj |
| 4 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fishermen | det |
| 6 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 counted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 refused | cc |
| 8 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 counted | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 build | mark |
| 10 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 refused | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 build | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 build | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 watching | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 watching | aux |
| 19 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 watching | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | the Alae | the fishermen | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fisherman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | the Alae not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not build | to-infinitive | the Alae not said here | a fire | for the hidden one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent fire=Product for one=Asset | |||
| 4 | watch | past · progressive | the hidden one | fishermen = fisherman | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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