Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 20
The Hawaiian legends say that Maui was slain in a conflict with some of the gods.
Who acts: Hawaiian legends · What happens: say, slay · To what, where: Maui, conflict · 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 (Hawaiian legends), 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 | 3 legends | det |
| 2 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 legends | amod |
| 3 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 slain | mark |
| 6 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 slain | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 slain | aux:pass |
| 8 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 conflict | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 conflict | det |
| 11 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slain | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 some | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 conflict | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gods | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gods | det |
| 16 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 some | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Hawaiian legends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | slay | past · passive | Maui | a conflict with some of the gods | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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