Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 102
His wife, with great sympathy, told him if he had strength enough to find the living water of Kane he could still restore his brothers.
Who acts: wife, god · What happens: tell, have, find, restore · To what, where: god, strength, living water, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sympathy | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sympathy | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sympathy | amod |
| 6 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wife | punct |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | ccomp |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 strength | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 strength | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 18 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 water | compound |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Kane | case |
| 21 | Kane | Kane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 water | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 restore | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 restore | aux |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 restore | advmod |
| 25 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 water | acl:relcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 restore | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | god's wife and great sympathy | god | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | god | strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | god not said here | the living water of Kane | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | ||||
| 4 | restore | could | god | god's brothers | still | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent brother=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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