Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 78
Then as the flames rose he said: “There is one more thing to rub.”
Who acts: flames, Maui, one more thing · What happens: rise, say, be, rub · 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 (flames, Maui, one more thing), 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 | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 rose | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flames | det |
| 4 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 10 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 thing | nummod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rub | mark |
| 16 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thing | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the flames | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Maui | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | one more thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rub in a quote | to-infinitive | one more thing not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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