Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 83
After a time the bird brothers taught Aukele how to leap into the air and fly as a bird.
Who acts: bird brothers · What happens: teach, leap, fly · To what, where: Aukele, air
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 (bird 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taught | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brothers | compound |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taught | nsubj |
| 7 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taught | obj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 leap | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 leap | mark |
| 11 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 taught | xcomp |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leap | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fly | cc |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leap | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 bird | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fly | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | the bird brothers | Aukele | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent aukele=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | leap | to-infinitive | the bird brothers not said here | the air | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fly | present | the bird brothers not said here | as a bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: 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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