Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 23

He heard her order her attendants, the brightest flashes of lightning, to watch for any one approaching and capture all who came walking upright as a man.

Who acts: Maui, Hine, lightning · What happens: hear, order, watch, approach, capture, come · To what, where: Hine, attendants

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, Hine, lightning), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	xcomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 attendants	nmod:poss
6	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 order	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flashes	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flashes	det
9	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 flashes	amod
10	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 lightning	case
12	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flashes	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 watch	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 watch	mark
15	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 one	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watch	obl
19	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 watch	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 capture	cc
21	capture	capture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 watch	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 came	advmod
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 capture	advcl
25	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 came	xcomp
26	upright	upright	ADV	_	25 walking	advmod
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 man	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walking	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Maui	Hine	the brightest flashes of lightning obl	tree rules
2	order	infinitive	Hine not said here	Hine's attendants		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Theme
3	watch	to-infinitive			for any one	tree rules
4	approach	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	capture	infinitive				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	come	past			who nsubj	tree rules
7	walk	gerund			as a man; upright property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	flash		lightning			nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 23

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 23