Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 182
He was sorry for her, remembering that it was by the aid of dragon powers he had gone into the heavens and from the deep pit of the skies secured the water of life.
Who acts: house, body, remembering · What happens: be, remember, go, secure · To what, where: dragon powers, heavens, water · 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, body, remembering), 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 | 3 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorry | cop |
| 3 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sorry | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembering | punct |
| 7 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 secured | csubj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 aid | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 aid | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 aid | cop |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 aid | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 aid | det |
| 13 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remembering | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 powers | case |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 powers | compound |
| 16 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 aid | nmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | aux |
| 19 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 powers | acl:relcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 heavens | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heavens | det |
| 22 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gone | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pit | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 pit | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pit | det |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pit | amod |
| 27 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 aid | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 skies | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 skies | det |
| 30 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pit | nmod |
| 31 | secured | secure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorry | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 water | det |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 secured | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 life | case |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 water | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | house | for Dragon; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | gerund | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | body | by the aid and the deep pit of the skies; of dragon powers; the deep pit of the skies conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | house | dragon powers not said here | the heavens | tree rules | |||
| 5 | secure | past | remembering | the water of life | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition water=Theme |
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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