Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 44
He turned to come back again into life when suddenly a little bird laughed in a clear, shrill tone and Great Hine, through whose mouth Maui was passing, awoke.
Who acts: Maui, little bird · What happens: turn, come back, laugh, pass, awake · To what, where: life, little bird
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, little bird), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 come | mark |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 turned | xcomp |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 passing | mark |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 13 bird | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 passing | nsubj |
| 14 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bird | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tone | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tone | det |
| 17 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tone | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clear | punct |
| 19 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tone | amod |
| 20 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Hine | cc |
| 22 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Hine | amod |
| 23 | Hine | Hine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tone | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mouth | punct |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 mouth | case |
| 26 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 27 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughed | obl |
| 28 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 mouth | appos |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 passing | aux |
| 30 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 turned | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 awoke | punct |
| 32 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Maui | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come back | to-infinitive | Maui not said here | life | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into life=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | laugh | participle | a little bird not said here | through mouth; in a clear shrill tone and Great Hine | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in tone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass | past · progressive | a little bird | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | awake | past | Maui not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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