Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 101
Aukele was very sorry and ate nothing for days.
Who acts: Aukele · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: nothing
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 (Aukele), 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 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ate | cc |
| 6 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | conj |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 ate | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ate | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Aukele | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | Aukele not said here | nothing | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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