Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 36
They came down and the god of Aukele awakened him, and told him the names of the women.
Who acts: Aukele, god · What happens: come down, awaken, tell, name · To what, where: chiefess, names, women · 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 (Aukele, god), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 awakened | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 god | det |
| 6 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awakened | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Aukele | case |
| 8 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 god | nmod |
| 9 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 awakened | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 names | det |
| 16 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 told | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 women | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 women | det |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 names | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | Aukele | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | awaken | past | the god of Aukele | chiefess | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Aukele not said here | the names of the women | chiefess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 4 | name | the women | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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