Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 154
“Wait until the guardian god is asleep and the servants are preparing drink for him when he should awake.
Who acts: you, guardian god, servants, god · What happens: wait, be, prepare, awake · To what, where: drink
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 (you, guardian god, servants, god), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 asleep | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 god | det |
| 5 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 god | amod |
| 6 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asleep | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asleep | cop |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 preparing | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 servants | det |
| 11 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 preparing | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 preparing | aux |
| 13 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asleep | conj |
| 14 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 preparing | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 preparing | obl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 awake | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 awake | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 awake | aux |
| 20 | awake | awake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 preparing | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the guardian god | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prepare in a quote | present · progressive | the servants | drink | for god | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent drink=Product for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | awake in a quote | should | god | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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