Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 67
Maui then promised to spare her life if she would tell him what to do.
Who acts: Maui, secret · What happens: promise, spare, tell, do · To what, where: life, Maui · Speech: someone speaks here
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, secret), 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 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 promised | advmod |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 spare | mark |
| 5 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spare | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spare | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Maui | then | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spare not said to happen | to-infinitive | Maui not said here | secret's life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | would | secret | Maui | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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