Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 73
The dog ran out, opened her mouth and tried to bite Aukele through the magic cloak.
Who acts: dog · What happens: run out, open, try, bite · To what, where: mouth, Aukele, magic cloak
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 (dog), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tried | cc |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bite | mark |
| 12 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bite | obj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 cloak | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cloak | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cloak | amod |
| 17 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bite | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | the dog | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | past | woman's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | bite not said to happen | to-infinitive | Aukele | the magic cloak | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent aukele=Patient through cloak=Location |
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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