Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 63

Maui was impatient—and just as an old bird began to select sticks with which to make the flames he leaped swiftly out and caught her and held her prisoner.

Who acts: Maui, old bird · What happens: be, begin, select, make, leap, catch · To what, where: sticks, flames, art, prisoner

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, old bird), 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	3 impatient	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 impatient	cop
3	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 impatient	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
6	just	just	ADV	_	11 began	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 began	mark
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 impatient	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 select	mark
13	select	select	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 select	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 select	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 select	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flames	det
20	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 leaped	nsubj
22	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flames	acl:relcl
23	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	24 out	advmod
24	out	out	ADV	_	22 leaped	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 caught	cc
26	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 leaped	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 caught	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 held	cc
29	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 caught	conj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 prisoner	nmod:poss
31	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 held	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 impatient	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Maui		impatient property	tree rules
2	begin	past	a old bird			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	select	to-infinitive	a old bird not said here	sticks	which obj	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	a old bird not said here	the flames		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flame=Product
5	leap	past	Maui	the flames not said here	out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flame=Trajectory
6	catch	past	Maui not said here	art		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	hold	past	Maui not said here	art's prisoner		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 63

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 63