Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 127
My grandchild, the brother of Pele, never got on my back.
Who acts: grandchild · What happens: not get · To what, where: back
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 (grandchild), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandchild | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grandchild | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Pele | case |
| 7 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | participle | My grandchild and the brother of Pele | my back | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source |
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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