Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 21
The New Zealand legends give a more detailed account of his death.
Who acts: Zealand legends, Maui · What happens: give, account, die · To what, where: detailed account, death
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 (Zealand legends, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 legends | det |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zealand | flat |
| 3 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 legends | compound |
| 4 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 account | det |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 detailed | advmod |
| 8 | detailed | detailed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 account | amod |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 death | nmod:poss |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 account | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the Zealand legends | a detailed account of Maui's death | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | ||||
| 2 | account | Maui's death | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | die | Maui | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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