Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 76
The brothers came to him with food which they had put in moss-covered calabashes.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: come, put, cover · To what, where: dog, food, covered calabashes
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 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 put | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | aux |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 food | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 calabashes | case |
| 13 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covered | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 moss | punct |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 calabashes | amod |
| 16 | calabashes | calabash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the brothers | dog | with food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | put | past · perfect · passive | food | covered calabashes | brothers = brother nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in calabash=Destination | |||
| 3 | cover | participle | moss compound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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