Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 42
He leaped through the mouth of the enchanted one and entered her stomach, weapon in hand, to take out her heart, the vital principle which he knew had its home somewhere within her being.
Who acts: Maui, vital principle · What happens: leap, enchant, enter, take out, know, have · To what, where: mouth, stomach, heart, vital principle, home
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, vital principle), 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 leaped | nsubj |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 mouth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouth | det |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaped | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mouth | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 entered | cc |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 13 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 weapon | punct |
| 15 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stomach | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 weapon | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | parataxis |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 take | compound:prt |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 principle | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 principle | det |
| 26 | vital | vital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 principle | amod |
| 27 | principle | principle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | nsubj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 knew | obj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 knew | nsubj |
| 30 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 principle | acl:relcl |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | parataxis |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 home | nmod:poss |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 34 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 had | advmod |
| 35 | within | within | ADP | _ | 37 being | mark |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 being | nmod:poss |
| 37 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 had | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | Maui | the mouth of the enchanted one | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mouth=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | enter | past | Maui not said here | house's stomach | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stomach=Destination | ||||
| 4 | take out | to-infinitive | house's heart | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know | past | Maui | the vital principle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | have | past | the vital principle | principle's home | somewhere property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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