Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 28
Maui warned the birds to refrain from making any noise while he made the supreme effort of his life.
Who acts: Maui · What happens: warn, refrain, make · To what, where: birds, noise, supreme effort · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 warned | nsubj |
| 2 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birds | det |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 warned | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 refrain | mark |
| 6 | refrain | refrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 warned | ccomp |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 8 making | mark |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 refrain | advcl |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 noise | det |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obj |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 making | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 effort | det |
| 15 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 effort | amod |
| 16 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 effort | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past | Maui | the birds | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | refrain | to-infinitive | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make | gerund | any noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||||
| 4 | make | past | Maui | the supreme effort of Maui's life | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product |
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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