Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 25
The birds went out, and Aukele wanted his brothers to say it was a travelling boat.
Who acts: birds, Aukele, brothers, boat · What happens: go out, want, say, be · To what, where: brothers, travelling boat · 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 (birds, Aukele, brothers, boat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | cc |
| 7 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wanted | nsubj |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wanted | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 boat | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 boat | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 16 | travelling | travelling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boat | amod |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the birds | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | want | past | Aukele | chiefess's brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | chiefess's brothers not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | boat | a travelling boat | 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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