Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 181
He saw the body moving, but the dragon was very weak and near death.
Who acts: house, body, dragon · What happens: see, move, be · To what, where: body
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, body, 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 body | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weak | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 weak | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weak | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 weak | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 weak | advmod |
| 12 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 near | cc |
| 14 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 weak | conj |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weak | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | house | the body | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | the body not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the dragon | death obl; weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the dragon not said here | 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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