Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 79
He took a fire stick and rubbed the top of the head of his prisoner until the feathers fell off and the raw flesh appeared.
Who acts: Maui, feathers, raw flesh · What happens: take, rub, fall off, appear · To what, where: fire stick, top
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 (Maui, feathers, raw flesh), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stick | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | compound |
| 5 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rubbed | cc |
| 7 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rubbed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 prisoner | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 15 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 fell | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feathers | det |
| 18 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rubbed | advcl |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 fell | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 appeared | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flesh | det |
| 23 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 flesh | amod |
| 24 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 appeared | nsubj |
| 25 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fell | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Maui | a fire stick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | Maui not said here | the top of the head of Maui's prisoner | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall off | past | the feathers | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | appear | past | the raw flesh | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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