Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 146
He told her to rub the water out of her eyes and not cry.
Who acts: guardian · What happens: tell, rub, not cry · To what, where: woman, water, eyes · 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 (guardian), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 rub | mark |
| 5 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rub | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rub | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cry | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 cry | advmod |
| 14 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rub | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | guardian | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | rub not said to happen | to-infinitive | guardian not said here | the water | woman's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme out eye=Destination | |||
| 3 | not cry speech: express | infinitive | guardian not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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