Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 17
Then he sent one to get the stick he had brought from the dragon pit which was near the sea.
Who acts: boy, dragon pit · What happens: send, get, bring, be · To what, where: one, stick, dragon pit, sea
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 (boy, dragon pit), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stick | det |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 stick | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 pit | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pit | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pit | compound |
| 15 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sea | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sea | cop |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pit | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | boy | one | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the stick | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stick=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect | boy | the stick not said here | the dragon pit | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stick=Theme from pit=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | the dragon pit | the sea | tree rules |
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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