Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 55
“But death is nothing new Death is, and has been ever since old Maui died Then Pata-tai laughed loud And woke the goblin-god Who severed him in two, and shut him in, So dusk of eve came on.”
Who acts: death, old Maui, Pata tai, goblin god, dusk · What happens: be, have, die, laugh, wake, sever · To what, where: nothing, goblin god, Maui, two
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 (death, old Maui, Pata tai, goblin god), 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 | _ | 5 nothing | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 nothing | cc |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nothing | cop |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Death | amod |
| 7 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | appos |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nothing | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 has | cc |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nothing | parataxis |
| 12 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 died | advcl |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 been | advmod |
| 14 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 17 died | mark |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Maui | amod |
| 16 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 died | nsubj |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 has | parataxis |
| 18 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 laughed | advmod |
| 19 | Pata | Pata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 tai | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Pata | punct |
| 21 | tai | tai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laughed | nsubj |
| 22 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 died | conj |
| 23 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 22 laughed | advmod |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 woke | cc |
| 25 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 laughed | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 god | det |
| 27 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 god | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 goblin | punct |
| 29 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 woke | obj |
| 30 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 severed | nsubj |
| 31 | severed | sever | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 god | acl:relcl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 severed | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 two | case |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 severed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 shut | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 shut | cc |
| 37 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 laughed | parataxis |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 shut | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADV | _ | 37 shut | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 came | punct |
| 41 | So | so | ADV | _ | 45 came | advmod |
| 42 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 came | nsubj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 eve | case |
| 44 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 dusk | nmod |
| 45 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 shut | conj |
| 46 | on | on | ADV | _ | 45 came | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nothing | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | death | nothing | new Death appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | be in a quote | participle | old Maui not said here | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die in a quote | past | old Maui | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | laugh in a quote | past | Pata tai | then | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | wake in a quote | past | Pata tai not said here | the goblin god | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent god=Patient | ||||
| 7 | sever in a quote | past | the goblin god | Maui | two | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 8 | shut in a quote | past | Maui | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 9 | come on in a quote | past | dusk of eve | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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