Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 60
Finally Maui rolled some kapa cloth together and stuck it up in one end of the canoe so that it would look like a man.
Who acts: Maui, cloth · What happens: roll, stick up, look · To what, where: kapa cloth, cloth, one end
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, cloth), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 3 rolled | advmod |
| 2 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 cloth | det |
| 5 | kapa | kapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cloth | compound |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 rolled | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stuck | cc |
| 9 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rolled | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stuck | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 stuck | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 end | nummod |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stuck | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 canoe | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 canoe | det |
| 17 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 look | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 look | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 look | aux |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stuck | advcl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 look | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | Maui | some kapa cloth | finally, together property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Agent | |||
| 2 | stick up | past | Maui not said here | cloth | in one end of the canoe | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in end=Destination | |||
| 3 | look | would | cloth | like a man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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