Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 18
After a long time on the sea all their food was gone and they were starving and lying in the bottom of the boat.
Who acts: food, brothers · What happens: be, starve, lie · To what, where: bottom
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 (food, brothers), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gone | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 food | det:predet |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 food | nmod:poss |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | cop |
| 12 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 starving | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 starving | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 starving | aux |
| 16 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 gone | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lying | cc |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 starving | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bottom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bottom | det |
| 21 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 boat | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boat | det |
| 24 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bottom | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | brothers's food | time | gone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | starve | past · progressive | brothers = brother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | the bottom of the boat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bottom=Location |
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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