Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 95
The bird brothers saw the fire and heard the thunder.
Who acts: bird brothers · What happens: see, hear · To what, where: fire, thunder
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brothers | compound |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 heard | cc |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thunder | det |
| 10 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the bird brothers | the fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the bird brothers not said here | the thunder | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus |
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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