Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 186
She told how “the child adopted or brought up by the gods,” and the Maiden of the Golden Clouds, had been taken by the Self-reliant Dragon to Oahu, and how all the rest had gone, leaving her as a guard in the old land of his birth and childhood.
Who acts: Dragon, reliant Dragon, rest · What happens: tell, adopt, bring up, take, go, leave · To what, where: child, Maiden, Oahu, Dragon, old land · 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 (Dragon, reliant Dragon, rest), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 adopted | advmod |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 adopted | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 adopted | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 brought | compound:prt |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 gods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gods | det |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 taken | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Maiden | det |
| 18 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Clouds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Clouds | det |
| 21 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Clouds | amod |
| 22 | Clouds | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Maiden | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Maiden | punct |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 taken | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 taken | aux:pass |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 Dragon | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Dragon | det |
| 29 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 reliant | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Self | punct |
| 31 | reliant | reliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Dragon | amod |
| 32 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 taken | obl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Oahu | case |
| 34 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 taken | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 gone | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 gone | cc |
| 37 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 gone | advmod |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 rest | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 rest | det |
| 40 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 gone | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 gone | aux |
| 42 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 leaving | punct |
| 44 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 gone | advcl |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 leaving | obj |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 guard | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 guard | det |
| 48 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 leaving | obl |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 land | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 land | det |
| 51 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 land | amod |
| 52 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 leaving | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 birth | case |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 birth | nmod:poss |
| 55 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 land | nmod |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 childhood | cc |
| 57 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 birth | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Dragon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | adopt in a quote | participle · passive | the child | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring up in a quote | participle | by the gods | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect · passive | the reliant Dragon | the Maiden of the Golden Clouds | Oahu | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to oahu=Destination | |||
| 5 | go | past · perfect | all rest | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | all rest not said here | Dragon | the old land of god's birth and childhood | as a guard | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in land=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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