Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 60
It was this same sorcerer-priest who saw the sun die and the earth become dark.
Who acts: wall, same sorcerer priest, sun, earth · What happens: be, see, die, become · To what, where: same sorcerer priest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wall, same sorcerer priest, sun, earth), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 priest | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 priest | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 priest | nsubj |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 priest | amod |
| 5 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 priest | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorcerer | punct |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 priest | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 die | nsubj |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 become | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 become | nsubj |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 die | conj |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 become | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 priest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wall | same sorcerer priest | this nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | same sorcerer priest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | die | present | the sun | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | become | present | the earth | dark property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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