Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 8
He lived in thatched houses, had wives and children, and was scolded by the women for not properly supporting his family.
Who acts: name, women · What happens: live, thatch, have, scold, not support · To what, where: thatched houses, wives, family
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 (name, women), 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 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 houses | case |
| 4 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 houses | amod |
| 5 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 8 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 children | cc |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wives | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scolded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 scolded | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 scolded | aux:pass |
| 14 | scolded | scold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 women | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 women | det |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 scolded | obl |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 supporting | mark |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 supporting | advmod |
| 20 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 21 supporting | advmod |
| 21 | supporting | support | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 scolded | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 family | nmod:poss |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 supporting | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | name | thatched houses | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 2 | thatch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | name not said here | wives and children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 4 | scold | past · passive | the women | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not support | gerund | the women not said here | name's family | properly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus |
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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