Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 17
“Maui did not wish men to die but to live forever.
Who acts: Maui · What happens: not wish, die, live · To what, where: men
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 (Maui), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 2 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wish | advmod |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wish | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 die | mark |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | xcomp |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 live | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 live | mark |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 die | conj |
| 12 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 11 live | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish in a quote | past · do-support | Maui | men | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Maui not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | Maui not said here | forever property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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