Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 105
She made a straight line toward the East, the sunrise, and told him to fly straight, not swerving to either side.
Who acts: path · What happens: make, tell, fly, not swerve · To what, where: straight line, god, side · 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 (path), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 line | det |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 line | amod |
| 5 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 8 East | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 East | det |
| 8 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sunrise | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sunrise | det |
| 11 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 East | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fly | mark |
| 17 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 told | xcomp |
| 18 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 fly | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 swerving | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 swerving | advmod |
| 21 | swerving | swerve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 told | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 side | det |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swerving | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | path | a straight line | toward the East | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Product | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | path not said here | god | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | path not said here | straight property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not swerve | gerund | path not said here | either side | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Location |
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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