Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 72
He twisted her neck until she was half dead—then she cried out: “I have hidden the fire in a green stick.”
Who acts: contest, experiment · What happens: twist, be, cry out, hide · To what, where: neck, fire, green stick · 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 (contest, experiment), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 twisted | nsubj |
| 2 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 neck | nmod:poss |
| 4 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twisted | obj |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 dead | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dead | cop |
| 8 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 dead | advmod |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 twisted | advcl |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 cried | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 twisted | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cried | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 hidden | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hidden | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 hidden | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hidden | aux |
| 19 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 cried | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hidden | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 stick | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stick | det |
| 24 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stick | amod |
| 25 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hidden | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 twisted | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | contest | experiment's neck | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | experiment | dead, half property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | experiment | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hide in a quote | present · perfect | experiment | the fire | a green stick | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fire=Patient in stick=Location |
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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