Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 28
Aukele took up the bamboo stick and threw it in the sea, and leaped in after it.
Who acts: Aukele · What happens: take up, throw, leap in · To what, where: bamboo stick, stick, sea
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 (Aukele), 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 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stick | det |
| 5 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stick | compound |
| 6 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 threw | cc |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leaped | cc |
| 15 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 leaped | compound:prt |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leaped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Aukele | the bamboo stick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Aukele not said here | stick | the sea | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sea=Destination | |||
| 3 | leap in | participle | Aukele not said here | after sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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