Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 99
After this flight to a cannibal land and this victory over the cannibal god, Aukele returned to his wife.
Who acts: Aukele · What happens: return
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 (Aukele), 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 flight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 flight | det |
| 3 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 returned | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 6 | cannibal | cannibal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 land | amod |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flight | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 victory | cc |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 victory | det |
| 10 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 land | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 god | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 god | det |
| 13 | cannibal | cannibal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 god | amod |
| 14 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 victory | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flight | punct |
| 16 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 returned | nsubj |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 returned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Aukele | after this flight to a cannibal land and this victory over the cannibal god | to god's wife result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result |
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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