Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 65
In his anger against the wise bird his first impulse was to taunt her and then kill her for hiding the secret of fire.
Who acts: first impulse, Maui · What happens: be, kill, hide, anger · To what, where: anger, art, secret
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 (first impulse, Maui), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 anger | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 anger | nmod:poss |
| 3 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taunt | obl |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 bird | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anger | nmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 impulse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 impulse | amod |
| 10 | impulse | impulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taunt | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taunt | cop |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 taunt | mark |
| 13 | taunt | taunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taunt | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kill | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 kill | advmod |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 taunt | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | obj |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 hiding | mark |
| 20 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 kill | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 secret | det |
| 22 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hiding | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 secret | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 taunt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Maui's first impulse | Maui's anger against the wise bird | art obj; taunt property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | Maui's first impulse not said here | art | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | hide | gerund | Maui's first impulse not said here | the secret of fire | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient | ||||
| 4 | anger | Maui | against the wise bird | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent against=obl |
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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