Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 111
Paao handed his friend a calabash with a little precious water, bidding him bathe his parched mouth and nostrils.
Who acts: Paao · What happens: hand, bid, bathe, parch · To what, where: calabash, friend, Paao, parched mouth
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paao), 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 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 handed | nsubj |
| 2 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 handed | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 calabash | det |
| 6 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 handed | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 10 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 handed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bidding | punct |
| 13 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 handed | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bidding | obj |
| 15 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bidding | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | parched | parch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 mouth | amod |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bathe | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nostrils | cc |
| 20 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mouth | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | Paao | a calabash | Paao's friend | with a little precious water | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Destination calabash=Theme | ||
| 2 | bid | gerund | Paao not said here | Paao | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bathe | infinitive | Paao not said here | Paao's parched mouth and nostrils | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Destination | ||||
| 4 | parch | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «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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