Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 69
The bird told the demi-god to rub the stalks of water plants together.
Who acts: bird · What happens: tell, rub · To what, where: demi god, stalks · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 god | det |
| 5 | demi | demi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 god | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 demi | punct |
| 7 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 rub | mark |
| 9 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 god | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stalks | det |
| 11 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rub | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 plants | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plants | compound |
| 14 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stalks | nmod |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 rub | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the bird | the demi god | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent god=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | rub | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | the stalks of water plants | together property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stalk=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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