Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 40
He stood in all the glory of savage manhood.
Who acts: Maui, savage manhood · What happens: stand, glory · To what, where: glory
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, savage manhood), 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 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 glory | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 glory | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 glory | det |
| 6 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 manhood | case |
| 8 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 manhood | amod |
| 9 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glory | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Maui | all glory of savage manhood | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in glory=Location | ||||
| 2 | glory | savage manhood | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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