Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 133
These trees would make a great noise and the guardian would cover the water tight and he could not get it.
Who acts: trees, guardian, tree · What happens: make, cover, not get · To what, where: great noise, water
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 (trees, guardian, tree), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 trees | det |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 noise | amod |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cover | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guardian | det |
| 10 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cover | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cover | aux |
| 12 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cover | obj |
| 15 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cover | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 get | advmod |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | would | this trees | a great noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 2 | cover | would | the guardian | the water | tight property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination | |||
| 3 | not get | could | tree | water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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