Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 59

If one or two remained or if all waited on the land there would be no fire—but the dawn which saw the four brothers in the boat, saw also the fire on the land.

Who acts: dawn · What happens: remain, wait, be, see · To what, where: one, land, fire, four brothers, boat

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 (dawn), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 remained	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 remained	nsubj:pass
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 two	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 one	conj
5	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 fire	cc
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 waited	mark
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 waited	advmod
9	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fire	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 land	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 land	det
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waited	obl
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 waited	advmod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fire	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 fire	cop
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	conj
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 dawn	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 dawn	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dawn	det
21	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	obl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dawn	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 brothers	det
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 brothers	nummod
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saw	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 boat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boat	det
29	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	conj
32	also	also	ADV	_	34 fire	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fire	det
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 land	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 land	det
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	participle · passive		one		dawn		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	wait a condition, not said to happen	past			the land; there		all property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
3	is a	would		no fire				tree rules
4	see	past	the dawn	the four brothers	the boat			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
5	see	past	the dawn not said here	the fire	the land			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 59

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 59