Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 190
“Nevertheless the gods aid the man who crosses the channel in a canoe a little more than the man who tries to cross by swimming.
Who acts: gods, man · What happens: aid, cross, try, swim · To what, where: man, channel
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 (gods, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 aid | punct |
| 2 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 5 aid | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gods | det |
| 4 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 aid | nsubj |
| 5 | aid | aid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aid | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 crosses | nsubj |
| 9 | crosses | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 channel | det |
| 11 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crosses | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 canoe | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 canoe | det |
| 14 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crosses | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 little | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 more | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 canoe | amod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 more | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 tries | nsubj |
| 22 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 cross | mark |
| 24 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tries | xcomp |
| 25 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 26 swimming | mark |
| 26 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 cross | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 aid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid in a quote | present | the gods | the man | nevertheless property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | cross in a quote | present | the man | the channel | in a canoe | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent channel=Patient in canoe=Topic | |||
| 3 | try in a quote | present | the man | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cross not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the man not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | swim in a quote | gerund | the man not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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