Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 51
Maui’s wife made war upon the gods, and killed as many as she could to avenge her husband’s death.
Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: make, kill, avenge, die · To what, where: war, many, 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 (wife, husband), 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 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Maui | case |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 gods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gods | det |
| 8 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 killed | cc |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 many | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 killed | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 avenge | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 avenge | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 avenge | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 avenge | mark |
| 18 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 many | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 death | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 husband | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 avenge | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Maui's wife | war | upon the gods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Product | |||
| 2 | kill | past | Maui's wife not said here | many | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 3 | avenge | could | wife | wife's husband's death | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | wife's husband | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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