Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 79
He went to a place where green calabash vines were growing, took a calabash, shook it, broke it, opened it and found good food inside.
Who acts: dog, green calabash vines · What happens: go, grow, take, shake, break, open · To what, where: place, calabash, food, good food
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, green calabash vines), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 growing | advmod |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vines | amod |
| 8 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vines | compound |
| 9 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 growing | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 growing | aux |
| 11 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 calabash | det |
| 15 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shook | punct |
| 17 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shook | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 broke | punct |
| 20 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shook | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 broke | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 opened | punct |
| 23 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 opened | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 opened | conj |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 food | amod |
| 28 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obj |
| 29 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 26 found | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dog | a place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | past · progressive | green calabash vines | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | dog not said here | a calabash | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calabash=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shake | past | dog not said here | food | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | break | past | dog not said here | food | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | open | past | food | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 7 | find | past | good food | inside property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
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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