Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 119
The morning is raising its hand to beckon us on.
What happens: raise, beckon on · To what, where: hand, us
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: 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 | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raising | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 raising | aux |
| 4 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raising | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 beckon | mark |
| 8 | beckon | beckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 raising | advcl |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 beckon | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 beckon | compound:prt |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | present · progressive | mountain's hand | morning | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beckon on | to-infinitive | us | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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