Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 161
The watchman handed out a calabash of dirty water.
Who acts: watchman · What happens: hand out · To what, where: calabash
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 (watchman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 watchman | det |
| 2 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handed | nsubj |
| 3 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 handed | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 calabash | det |
| 6 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calabash | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand out | participle | the watchman | a calabash of dirty water | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent calabash=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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