Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 121
She made a line from the door of the house toward the sunrise, and warned him.
Who acts: moon · What happens: make, warn · To what, where: line, door, traveller
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), 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 | 4 line | det |
| 4 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 11 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 13 sunrise | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sunrise | det |
| 13 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 warned | cc |
| 16 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 warned | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | moon | a line | the door of the house toward the sunrise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent line=Product from door=Material | |||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past | moon not said here | traveller | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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