Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 151
She squeezed the water from the plants into a cup, took charcoal and other things and mixed them together until black; then she painted Aukele’s hands very black, like the hands of the brother of Pele.
Who acts: woman · What happens: squeeze, take, mix, paint · To what, where: water, plants, charcoal, hands
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 squeezed | nsubj |
| 2 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squeezed | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 plants | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plants | det |
| 7 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 squeezed | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 cup | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cup | det |
| 10 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squeezed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 squeezed | parataxis |
| 13 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 things | cc |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 charcoal | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mixed | cc |
| 18 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mixed | obj |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 mixed | advmod |
| 21 | until | until | ADP | _ | 22 black | case |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mixed | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 painted | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 painted | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 painted | nsubj |
| 26 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 squeezed | conj |
| 27 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 hands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Aukele | case |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 painted | obj |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 black | advmod |
| 31 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 painted | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hands | punct |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 hands | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hands | det |
| 35 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 painted | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 brother | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 brother | det |
| 38 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hands | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Pele | case |
| 40 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 brother | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 squeezed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | past | woman | the water | the plants | into a cup | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from plant=Initial_Location into cup=Destination | ||
| 2 | take | past | charcoal and other things | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charcoal=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mix | past | charcoal | until black | together property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | paint | past | woman | Aukele's hands | then | like the hands of the brother of Pele | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Destination |
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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