Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 180
He thought she was dead, but he stood up and stamped with full strength and broke the coral so that the dragon was free.
Who acts: house, Dragon · What happens: think, be, stand up, stamp, break · To what, where: coral · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (house, Dragon), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 stood | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stamped | cc |
| 12 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stood | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 strength | case |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 strength | amod |
| 15 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stamped | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 broke | cc |
| 17 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coral | det |
| 19 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broke | obj |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 free | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dragon | det |
| 23 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 free | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 free | cop |
| 25 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 broke | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | house | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Dragon | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand up | past | house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stamp | participle | house not said here | with full strength | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with strength=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break | past | house not said here | the coral | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coral=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the dragon | free property | 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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