Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 48
“If Maui had not died he could have restored to life all who had gone before him, and thus succeeded in destroying death.”
Who acts: Maui, all · What happens: not die, restore, go, succeed, destroy · To what, where: life, death
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, all), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 died | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 died | mark |
| 3 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 died | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 died | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 died | advmod |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 restored | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 restored | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 restored | aux |
| 10 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 died | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restored | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | aux |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 life | acl:relcl |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gone | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 succeeded | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 succeeded | cc |
| 21 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 22 succeeded | advmod |
| 22 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 died | conj |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 destroying | mark |
| 24 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 succeeded | advcl |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 destroying | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 died | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not die in a quote | past · perfect | Maui | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | restore in a quote | could · perfect | Maui | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past · perfect | all | before Maui | life nsubj | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location | |||
| 4 | succeed in a quote | past | Maui not said here | thus property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | destroy in a quote | gerund | Maui not said here | death | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=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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