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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 12

The natives of New Zealand say: “Man may have descendants but the daughters of the night strangle his offspring”; and again: “Men make heroes, but death carries them away.”

Who acts: natives, Man, daughters, Men, death · What happens: say, have, strangle, make, carry away · To what, where: descendants, offspring, heroes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (natives, Man, daughters, Men), 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

detnsubjcaseflatnmodpunctpunctnsubjauxccompobjccdetnsubjcasedetnmodconjnmod:possobjpunctpunctccconjpunctpunctnsubjparataxisobjpunctccnsubjconjobjadvmodpunctpunctrootTheDETnativesNOUNofADPNewPROPNZealandPROPNsayVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTManNOUNmayAUXhaveVERBdescendantsNOUNbutCCONJtheDETdaughtersNOUNofADPtheDETnightNOUNstrangleVERBhisPRONoffspringNOUN”PUNCT;PUNCTandCCONJagainADV:PUNCT“PUNCTMenNOUNmakeVERBheroesNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJdeathNOUNcarriesVERBthemPRONawayADV.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 nativesdet
2nativesnativeNOUNNumber=Plur6 saynsubj
3ofofADP_5 Zealandcase
4NewNewPROPNNumber=Sing5 Zealandflat
5ZealandZealandPROPNNumber=Sing2 nativesnmod
6saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7::PUNCT_11 havepunct
8“"PUNCT_11 havepunct
9ManmanNOUNNumber=Sing11 havensubj
10maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin11 haveaux
11havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf6 sayccomp
12descendantsdescendantNOUNNumber=Plur11 haveobj
13butbutCCONJ_19 stranglecc
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 daughtersdet
15daughtersdaughterNOUNNumber=Plur19 stranglensubj
16ofofADP_18 nightcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 nightdet
18nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing15 daughtersnmod
19stranglestrangleVERBVerbForm=Inf11 haveconj
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 offspringnmod:poss
21offspringoffspringNOUNNumber=Sing19 strangleobj
22”"PUNCT_19 stranglepunct
23;;PUNCT_6 saypunct
24andandCCONJ_25 againcc
25againagainADV_23 ;conj
26::PUNCT_29 makepunct
27“"PUNCT_29 makepunct
28MenmanNOUNNumber=Plur29 makensubj
29makemakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 sayparataxis
30heroesheroNOUNNumber=Plur29 makeobj
31,,PUNCT_34 carriespunct
32butbutCCONJ_34 carriescc
33deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing34 carriesnsubj
34carriescarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 makeconj
35themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs34 carriesobj
36awayawayADV_34 carriesadvmod
37..PUNCT_29 makepunct
38”"PUNCT_29 makepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentthe natives of New Zealandvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2have in a quotemayMandescendantsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descendant=Patient
3strangle in a quoteinfinitivethe daughters of the nightMan's offspringvn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offspring=Patient
4make in a quotepresentMenheroesvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Product
5carry away in a quotepresentdeathheroes = heroaway propertyvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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