Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 74
Again he caught his prisoner by the head and wrung her neck, and she named a kind of dry wood.
Who acts: spark, experiment · What happens: catch, wring, name · To what, where: prisoner, neck, kind
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 (spark, 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 caught | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 5 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wrung | cc |
| 10 | wrung | wring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrung | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 named | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 named | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 named | nsubj |
| 16 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 kind | det |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 named | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wood | amod |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kind | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | spark | spark's prisoner | again | by the head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme | ||
| 2 | wring | past | spark not said here | experiment's neck | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | past | experiment | a kind of dry wood | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=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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