Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 119
She thus became thin—a new moon—and the traveller gained strength to return to his home.
Who acts: moon, traveller · What happens: become, gain, return · To what, where: new moon, strength
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 (moon, traveller), 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 | 3 became | nsubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 became | advmod |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 moon | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 moon | amod |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | obl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 gained | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gained | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 traveller | det |
| 12 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gained | nsubj |
| 13 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 14 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gained | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 return | mark |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gained | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 home | nmod:poss |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 return | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | moon | a new moon | thin, thus property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | gain | past | the traveller | strength | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | the traveller not said here | to traveller's home result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=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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