Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 24
He crept past the attendants on hands and feet, found the place of life, stole some of the food of the goddess and returned home.
Who acts: Maui · What happens: creep, find, steal, return · To what, where: attendants, place, some
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crept | nsubj |
| 2 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | past | past | ADP | _ | 5 attendants | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 attendants | det |
| 5 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crept | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hands | case |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 attendants | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feet | cc |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hands | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stole | punct |
| 17 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | parataxis |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 stole | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 food | det |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 some | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 goddess | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 goddess | det |
| 24 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 food | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 returned | cc |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stole | conj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 returned | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | Maui | the attendants on hands and feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past attendant=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Maui not said here | the place of life | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | steal | past | some of the food of the goddess | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location some=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return | past | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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