Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 184
He asked about his parents and their gods, and the desolation of the land.
Who acts: house · What happens: ask, desolate · To what, where: desolation, land
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), 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 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 parents | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asked | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gods | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gods | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 parents | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 desolation | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 desolation | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 desolation | det |
| 12 | desolation | desolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 desolation | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | house | the desolation of the land | about house's parents and parents's gods | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about parent=Topic | |||
| 2 | desolate | the land | nom desolation «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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