Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 110
His god saw this and told him he was leaving the straight line and was flying to some other place.
Who acts: god · What happens: see, tell, leave, fly · To what, where: this, god, straight line · 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), 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 god | nmod:poss |
| 2 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leaving | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 leaving | aux |
| 10 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 told | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 line | det |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 line | amod |
| 13 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaving | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flying | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flying | aux |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 leaving | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 place | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 place | amod |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flying | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | arm's god | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | arm's god not said here | god | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · progressive | god | the straight line | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | past · progressive | god not said here | to some other place result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result |
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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