Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 30
The chiefess found the cloak and shook it toward the boat, then threw it away.
Who acts: chiefess · What happens: find, shake, throw away · To what, where: cloak, boat
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 (chiefess), 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 chiefess | det |
| 2 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cloak | det |
| 5 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shook | cc |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shook | obj |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 boat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boat | det |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 threw | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 threw | advmod |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 threw | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 threw | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the chiefess | the cloak | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | the chiefess not said here | cloak | the boat | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme toward boat=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | throw away | past | cloak | then | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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