Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 9
The spirits of those who die on the other islands leap into the sea and swim around the land from island to island until they reach Savaii.
Who acts: spirits · What happens: die, leap, swim, reach · To what, where: other islands, sea, land, Savaii
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 (spirits), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spirits | det |
| 2 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leap | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 those | case |
| 4 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 spirits | nmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 die | nsubj |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 those | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 islands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islands | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 islands | amod |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 die | obl |
| 11 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leap | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swim | cc |
| 16 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leap | conj |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swim | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 island | case |
| 21 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swim | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 island | case |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swim | obl |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 reach | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reach | nsubj |
| 26 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 swim | advcl |
| 27 | Savaii | Savaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 reach | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 leap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | the other islands | who nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | leap | present | the spirits of those | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination | ||||
| 3 | swim | present | the spirits of those not said here | the land | from island; to island | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to island=Destination | |||
| 4 | reach | present | spirits = spirit | Savaii | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent savaii=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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