Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 1
The story of Maui seeking immortality for the human race is one of the finest myths in the world.
Who acts: story · What happens: seek, be · To what, where: immortality, one
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Maui | case |
| 4 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 5 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 story | acl |
| 6 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeking | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 race | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 race | det |
| 9 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 race | amod |
| 10 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeking | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 myths | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 myths | det |
| 15 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 myths | amod |
| 16 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 myths | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | gerund | the story of Maui not said here | immortality | for the human race | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent immortality=Location for race=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the story of Maui | one | of the finest myths in the world | tree rules |
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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