Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 33
Aukele swam to the beach, pulled up his stick, found his cloak and lay down under a tree and slept.
Who acts: Aukele · What happens: swim, pull up, find, lay down, sleep · To what, where: beach, stick, cloak, tree
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 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 beach | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beach | det |
| 5 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swam | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swam | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 pulled | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stick | nmod:poss |
| 10 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swam | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 found | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 lay | compound:prt |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slept | cc |
| 22 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | Aukele | the beach | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to beach=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pull up | past | Aukele not said here | leaf's stick | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | leaf's cloak | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lay down | infinitive | a tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under tree=Destination | |||||
| 5 | sleep | past | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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