Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 12
If you lift it up against any enemies, they will fall to pieces as dust and ashes.”
Who acts: you, enemies · What happens: lift up, fall · To what, where: skin, enemies
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 (you, enemies), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 lift | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lift | nsubj |
| 3 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fall | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lift | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lift | compound:prt |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 enemies | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 enemies | det |
| 8 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lift | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lift | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fall | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fall | aux |
| 12 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 pieces | case |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fall | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 dust | case |
| 16 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fall | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ashes | cc |
| 18 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dust | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fall | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up a condition, not said to happen | present | you | skin | any enemies | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme against enemy=Destination | |||
| 2 | fall | future | enemies = enemy | to pieces; as dust and ashes | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=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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