Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 62
The birds counted the figures in the boat and then started to build a heap of wood for the fire.
Who acts: birds · What happens: count, start, build · To what, where: figures, boat, heap
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 (birds), 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 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 counted | nsubj |
| 3 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 figures | det |
| 5 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 counted | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 boat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 counted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 started | advmod |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 counted | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 build | mark |
| 13 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 started | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 heap | det |
| 15 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 build | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heap | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 fire | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 build | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | the birds | the figures | the boat | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme | |||
| 2 | start | past | the birds not said here | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | the birds not said here | a heap of wood | for the fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent heap=Product for fire=Asset |
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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