Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 108
He thought he was flying in a straight line, but one arm became tired because the stick was under it.
Who acts: god, one arm, stick · What happens: think, fly, become, be · To what, where: straight line, stick · 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 (god, one arm, stick), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flying | aux |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 line | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 line | det |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 line | amod |
| 9 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flying | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 arm | nummod |
| 13 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 it | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stick | det |
| 18 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 it | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 it | cop |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 became | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | god | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past · progressive | god | a straight line | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in line=Location | ||||
| 3 | become | past | one arm | tired property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the stick | stick | tree rules |
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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