Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 152
His hands were black, and those watching the water of life would look at the hands reaching for water and make no mistake.
Who acts: hands, those, water · What happens: be, watch, look, reach, make · To what, where: mistake
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 (hands, those, water), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hands | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 black | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 black | cop |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watching | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 watching | cc |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 watching | nsubj |
| 8 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 black | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 look | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | nmod |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | aux |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 watching | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hands | det |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 look | obl |
| 18 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 hands | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reaching | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 mistake | det |
| 24 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | guardian's hands | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | those | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | would | the water of life | at the hands | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | gerund | the hands not said here | for water | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | present | the water of life not said here | no mistake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
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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