Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 9
Inside she placed an image of the god Lono, and also a magic leaf which could provide plenty of food for any one who touched the leaf to his lips.
Who acts: Dragon, magic leaf, one · What happens: place, provide, touch, image · To what, where: image, plenty, leaf, god
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 (Dragon, magic leaf, one), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 placed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 image | det |
| 5 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 god | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 god | det |
| 8 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 image | nmod |
| 9 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 god | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaf | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leaf | cc |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 leaf | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 leaf | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaf | compound |
| 15 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 provide | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 provide | aux |
| 18 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leaf | acl:relcl |
| 19 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 provide | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plenty | nmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 provide | obl |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 touched | nsubj |
| 26 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 one | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 leaf | det |
| 28 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 touched | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 lips | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lips | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 touched | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Dragon | a image of the god | a magic leaf obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent image=Theme | |||
| 2 | provide | could | a magic leaf | plenty of food | for any one | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition plenty=Theme for one=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | touch | past | any one | the leaf | to Lono's lips | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leaf=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | image | the god | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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