Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 129
He gave his name and ancestors, and told the watchman he had come for the water of life for his brothers.
Who acts: fire · What happens: give, tell, come, name · To what, where: name, watchman · 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 (fire), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ancestors | cc |
| 6 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 name | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 watchman | det |
| 11 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | iobj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 told | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 water | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 brothers | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | fire | fire's name and ancestors | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | fire not said here | the watchman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent watchman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | fire | for the water of life; for fire's brothers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | name | fire | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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