Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 46
Thus Maui entered the gates of death, but was unable to return, and death has ever since been victor over rebellious men.
Who acts: Maui, death · What happens: enter, be, return, have · To what, where: gates
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, death), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gates | det |
| 5 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gates | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unable | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 unable | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 unable | cop |
| 11 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 entered | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 return | mark |
| 13 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unable | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 has | cc |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 has | advmod |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 21 victor | case |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 victor | cop |
| 21 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | obl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 men | case |
| 23 | rebellious | rebellious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 men | amod |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 victor | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Maui | the gates of death | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | Maui not said here | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | Maui not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | present | death | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | participle | since victor | over rebellious men | tree rules |
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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