Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 26
On the way he changed them into the form of birds.
Who acts: Maui · What happens: change, form · To what, where: friends, way, birds
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 changed | nsubj |
| 5 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 changed | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 form | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 form | det |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 form | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Maui | friends = friend | the way | into the form of birds result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into form=Result | ||
| 2 | form | birds | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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