Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 40
So they came and sat down by him, and they talked lovingly together and he won their hearts.
Who acts: Aukele, god · What happens: come, sit down, talk, win · To what, where: hearts
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 talked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 talked | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 talked | nsubj |
| 12 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | lovingly | lovingly | ADV | _ | 12 talked | advmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 talked | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 won | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 won | nsubj |
| 17 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 talked | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 won | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Aukele | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Aukele not said here | by god | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location | ||||
| 3 | talk | past | Aukele | lovingly, together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | win | past | god | Aukele's hearts | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
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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