Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 93
The cannibal father made fire, called Kuku-ena (the lightning); then Ikuwa, a stone crashing like thunder.
Who acts: cannibal father, fire, stone · What happens: make, call, crash · To what, where: fire, Kuku ena · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cannibal father, fire, stone), 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 | 3 father | det |
| 2 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 father | compound |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fire | acl |
| 8 | Kuku | Kuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ena | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kuku | punct |
| 10 | ena | ENA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 lightning | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lightning | det |
| 13 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ena | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 lightning | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 Ikuwa | advmod |
| 17 | Ikuwa | Ikuwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stone | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stone | det |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Ikuwa | appos |
| 21 | crashing | crash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 stone | acl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 thunder | case |
| 23 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crashing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the cannibal father | fire | Ikuwa obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | |||
| 2 | call | participle | fire not said here | Kuku ena | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | crash | gerund | a stone not said here | like thunder | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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