Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 25

“Some of my choice fruits, brought from Tahiti, are beginning to ripen; and each night Kaino, your son, creeps under the low branches, and gathers whatever is good.”

Who acts: Some, night, whatever · What happens: bring, begin, ripen, creep, gather, be · To what, where: choice fruits, Tahiti, low branches · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Some, night, whatever), 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	_	13 beginning	punct
2	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 beginning	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 fruits	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fruits	nmod:poss
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fruits	compound
6	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Some	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fruits	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Tahiti	case
10	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Some	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 beginning	aux
13	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ripen	mark
15	ripen	ripen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 beginning	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 creeps	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 creeps	cc
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 creeps	nsubj
20	Kaino	Kaino	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 night	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 son	punct
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 son	nmod:poss
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Kaino	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 night	punct
25	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 beginning	conj
26	under	under	ADP	_	29 branches	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 branches	det
28	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 branches	amod
29	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 creeps	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gathers	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gathers	cc
32	gathers	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 beginning	parataxis
33	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 good	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 good	cop
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gathers	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 beginning	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 beginning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	participle		my choice fruits not said here	Tahiti		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from tahiti=Initial_Location
2	begin in a quote	present · progressive	Some of my choice fruits				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ripen in a quote	to-infinitive	Some of my choice fruits not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	creep in a quote	present	each night		the low branches		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under branch=Trajectory
5	gather in a quote	present					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	whatever			good property	tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 25

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 25