Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 76
The twisting process was resumed—and repeated until the mud-hen was almost dead—and Maui had tried tree after tree.
Who acts: mud hen · What happens: resume, repeat, be, try · To what, where: twisting process, Maui
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 (mud hen), 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 | 3 process | det |
| 2 | twisting | twisting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 process | compound |
| 3 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resumed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 resumed | aux:pass |
| 5 | resumed | resume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 resumed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 repeated | cc |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 resumed | conj |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 dead | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hen | det |
| 11 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hen | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 mud | punct |
| 13 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dead | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dead | cop |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 dead | advmod |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 repeated | advcl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 resumed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tried | cc |
| 19 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tried | aux |
| 21 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 resumed | conj |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tried | obj |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resume | past · passive | the twisting process | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | repeat | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the mud hen | almost, dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | past · perfect · passive | Maui | after tree | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer tree=Result |
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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