Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 45
Her sharp, obsidian teeth closed with a snap upon Maui, cutting his body in the centre.
What happens: close, cut · To what, where: sharp obsidian teeth, body, centre
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: 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 teeth | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 teeth | punct |
| 4 | obsidian | obsidian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 teeth | amod |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 teeth | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 snap | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 snap | det |
| 9 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closed | obl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 Maui | case |
| 11 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 snap | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cutting | punct |
| 13 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 teeth | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cutting | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 centre | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 centre | det |
| 18 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cutting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 teeth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | Hine's sharp obsidian teeth not said here | with a snap upon Maui | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snap=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | gerund | Maui's body | the centre | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=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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