Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 31
The brothers broke into small dust and were destroyed.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: break, destroy · To what, where: small dust
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 (brothers), 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 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 dust | case |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dust | amod |
| 6 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 destroyed | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 9 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 broke | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the brothers | into small dust result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dust=Result | ||||
| 2 | destroy | past · passive | the brothers not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
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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