Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 134
He flew to another watchman, who told him to go straight to the bottom of the pit.
Who acts: tree, watchman · What happens: fly, tell, go · To what, where: tree, bottom · 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 (tree, watchman), 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 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 watchman | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 watchman | det |
| 5 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watchman | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | xcomp |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 bottom | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bottom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bottom | det |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pit | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pit | det |
| 18 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bottom | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | tree | to another watchman result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to watchman=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | another watchman | tree | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | another watchman not said here | the bottom of the pit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location |
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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