Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 142
When he had done all these things and all attempts to kill him had failed, Aukele made the old blind woman lie down under a cocoanut tree.
Who acts: guardian, Aukele, old blind woman · What happens: do, kill, fail, make, lie down · To what, where: things, guardian, cocoanut tree
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 (guardian, Aukele, old blind woman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 things | det:predet |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 done | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 attempts | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 attempts | det |
| 10 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 things | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 failed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 failed | aux |
| 15 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 kill | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 failed | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 21 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lie | nsubj |
| 23 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | ccomp |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 lie | compound:prt |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 27 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tree | compound |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lie | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | guardian | all things and all attempts | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | guardian not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fail | past · perfect · passive | guardian | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | make | past | Aukele | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lie down | infinitive | the old blind woman | a cocoanut tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=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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