Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 39
He put off his clothing and prepared to pass through the ordeal of going to the hidden source of life, tear it out of the body of its guardian and carry it back with him to mankind.
Who acts: Maui, ordeal · What happens: put off, pass, go, tear, carry back · To what, where: clothing, ordeal, hidden source, body, mankind
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, ordeal), 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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 put | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 5 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 prepared | cc |
| 7 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 put | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pass | mark |
| 9 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 put | advcl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 ordeal | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ordeal | det |
| 12 | ordeal | ordeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pass | obl |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 ordeal | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 source | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 source | det |
| 17 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 source | amod |
| 18 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 source | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tear | punct |
| 22 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pass | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tear | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 body | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 body | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 body | det |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tear | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 guardian | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 guardian | nmod:poss |
| 30 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 body | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 carry | cc |
| 32 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tear | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 carry | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 carry | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 carry | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 mankind | case |
| 38 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carry | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put off | past | Maui | Maui's clothing | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clothing=Goal | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | Maui not said here | the ordeal | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through ordeal=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the ordeal not said here | the hidden source of life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to source=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tear | infinitive | Maui not said here | clothing | the body of body's guardian | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme | |||
| 5 | carry back | infinitive | Maui not said here | clothing | mankind | with Maui | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mankind=Destination |
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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