Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 25
He showed the food to his brothers and friends and persuaded them to go with him into the darkness of the night of death.
Who acts: Maui, friends · What happens: show, persuade, go · To what, where: food, brothers, friends, darkness
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, friends), 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 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 food | det |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 brothers | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 showed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 friends | cc |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brothers | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 persuaded | cc |
| 11 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 persuaded | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 persuaded | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 darkness | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 darkness | det |
| 19 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 darkness | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 night | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Maui | the food | Maui's brothers and friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Topic to brother=Recipient | |||
| 2 | persuade | past | Maui not said here | friends = friend | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | the darkness of the night of death | with Maui | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into darkness=Initial_Location |
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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