Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 71
Then she told him to rub reeds together—but they bent and broke and he could make no fire.
Who acts: experiment, reeds, contest · What happens: tell, rub, bend, break, make · To what, where: contest, reeds, fire · 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 (experiment, reeds, contest), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rub | mark |
| 6 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 7 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rub | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 rub | advmod |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bent | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 bent | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bent | nsubj |
| 12 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 broke | cc |
| 14 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bent | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 broke | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 fire | det |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | experiment | contest | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | rub not said to happen | to-infinitive | experiment not said here | reeds | together property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent reed=Theme | |||
| 3 | bend | past | reeds = reed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | break | past | reeds = reed not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | could | contest | no fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
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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