Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 167
The brother of Pele and his servants awoke and followed, but he fled through the heavens to the place where the ghosts of his brothers lay in the sunken ship by the home of the goddess of the sea.
Who acts: brother, watchman, ghosts · What happens: awake, follow, flee, lay, ghost · To what, where: heavens, sunken ship, brothers
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 (brother, watchman, ghosts), 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 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Pele | case |
| 4 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 servants | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 servants | nmod:poss |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Pele | conj |
| 8 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 followed | cc |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 awoke | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fled | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fled | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fled | nsubj |
| 14 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 awoke | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 heavens | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heavens | det |
| 17 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fled | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fled | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 lay | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ghosts | det |
| 23 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 lay | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 brothers | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ghosts | nmod |
| 27 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 place | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 ship | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ship | det |
| 30 | sunken | sunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ship | amod |
| 31 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lay | obl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 home | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 home | det |
| 34 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ship | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 goddess | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 goddess | det |
| 37 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 home | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 sea | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sea | det |
| 40 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 goddess | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the brother of Pele and watchman's servants | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow | past | the brother of Pele and watchman's servants not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flee | past | watchman | the heavens | to the place | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through heaven=Initial_Location to place=Destination | |||
| 4 | lay | present | the ghosts of watchman's brothers | the sunken ship by the home of the goddess of the sea | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ship=Destination | ||||
| 5 | ghost | watchman's brothers | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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