Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 100
After a time the ghosts of his brothers appeared to him and reminded him of their grave in the sea.
Who acts: ghosts · What happens: appear, remind, ghost · To what, where: god, sea, brothers
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ghosts), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ghosts | det |
| 5 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 brothers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ghosts | nmod |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 appeared | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reminded | cc |
| 13 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeared | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reminded | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 grave | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grave | nmod:poss |
| 17 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reminded | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reminded | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the ghosts of god's brothers | god | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | remind speech: other | past | the ghosts of god's brothers not said here | god | the sea | of brothers's grave | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of grave=Topic | ||
| 3 | ghost | god's brothers | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=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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