Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 52
One of the old native poets of New Zealand in chanting the story to Mr. White said: “But though Maui was killed his offspring survived.
Who acts: offspring · What happens: chant, say, kill, survive · To what, where: story, White, Maui · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (offspring), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 said | ccomp |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 poets | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 poets | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poets | amod |
| 5 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poets | amod |
| 6 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Zealand | case |
| 8 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Zealand | flat |
| 9 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 poets | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 chanting | mark |
| 11 | chanting | chant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chanting | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 White | case |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 White | nmod:desc |
| 16 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 story | nmod |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 killed | punct |
| 20 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 killed | cc |
| 21 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 killed | mark |
| 22 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 killed | aux:pass |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | ccomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 offspring | nmod:poss |
| 26 | offspring | offspring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 survived | nsubj |
| 27 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 killed | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | gerund | the story | White Mr. | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to white=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | One of the old native poets of New Zealand ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | past · passive | Maui | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | survive in a quote | past | Maui's offspring | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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