Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 4
They measured time not by the years but by the lives of men; not by the days passed, but by the deeds done.
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: not measure, not pass, do · To what, where: deeds
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 (Hawaiians), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 measured | nsubj |
| 2 | measured | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 measured | obj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 measured | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 years | det |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 measured | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 lives | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 lives | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lives | det |
| 11 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 years | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lives | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 passed | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 passed | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 days | det |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 passed | obl |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 measured | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 deeds | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 deeds | cc |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 deeds | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 deeds | det |
| 24 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 passed | parataxis |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 deeds | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 measured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not measure | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | time; year | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not pass | past | day | the deeds parataxis | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | participle | the deeds not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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